Thermometrum magnum : or, grand standard thermometer. Expressing all degrees of heat and cold, from that with which Mercury boils, to that which congeals it into solid Metal. To which are adjusted the celebrated scales of Sir Isaac Newton, Fahrenheit, De L'Isle, and Reaumur, for comparing observations made in every part of the globe, and in all Degrees of Temperature in the Air, or any other Bodies. The whole delineated on, and illustrated by, a large copper-plate. By Benjamin Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temperature measurements--Early works to 1800.

Temperature measurements.

Thermometers--Early works to 1800.

Thermometers.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages,10 pages,plate ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for, and sold by the author, In Fleet-Street, No. 171, and by the booksellers in city and country. A. D., 1772.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N14251.

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