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Let us now test this procedure by carrying out the same experiment with the help of thermometrical instruments in their original form, that is, the form in which Galileo first applied them.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst

Dr. Bond expresses the conviction that Nantucket enjoys special advantages as an astronomical site, on account of its comparative exemption from thermometrical disturbances of the atmosphere.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

No less than fifty degrees was the thermometrical difference in Ta-shui-tsing and Kiang-ti.

From Across China on Foot by Dingle, Edwin John

A gentleman well known to me kept a thermometrical record for nearly a half century in a New England county town, at an elevation of at least 1,5000 feet above the sea.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

The 210th part of this corrected volume is 1.368, which, multiplied by 6 degrees of thermometrical difference, gives the subtractive correction for temperature 8.208, leaving the actual corrected volume of air after combustion 278.942 inches.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine