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thermoscope

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/ ˈθɜːməˌskəʊp, ˌθɜːməˈskɒpɪk /

noun

  1. a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The conversion of this open, air-expansion thermoscope into the modern thermometer was accomplished by the Florentine Accademia del Cimento about 1660.

From The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments by Multhauf, Robert P.

In order to determine the effect of radiation in the cooling of bodies, Rumford employed the thermoscope referred to by Cuvier.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

To turn a modern thermometer into a thermoscope we need only remove the figures from its scale.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst

Torricelli's apparatus, unlike Galileo's thermoscope, represented the barometer in essentially its classical form.

From The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments by Multhauf, Robert P.

The instrument shown in his sketch resembles a Galilean thermoscope.

From The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments by Multhauf, Robert P.

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