Citations:thermometre

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English citations of thermometre

Noun: alternative form of thermometer[edit]

1707 1726 1772
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  • 1707, unknown, The History of the Works of the Learned, page #201:
    To conclude, the Thermometre of Florence, which is alſo a Barometer, is fit, becauſe of the ſame defect, to become a Manometre, and we may make a perfect Manometre of it, by forming it with the Conditions and Proportions that M. Varignon demands. Thus that Author, ſpeaking of his Manometre, page 313. It is, ſays he, becauſe this Machine makes the Barometer and Thermometre both together, after the manner of the Thermometre of Florence, that it becomes fir for this uſe ; that is to ſay to meaſure the different Rarefactions of the Air.
  • 1726, Boyer, The Political State of Great Britain, Volume XXXII., page #554:
    How inviolable ſoever ’tis pretended the Engagements between Sovereigns and States ſhould be, yet it has been obſerv’d, that their own Intereſt evver was the infallible Thermometre of their good Faith and Promiſes, which always did riſe or fall, in Proportion as their Alliances received more or leſs Degrees of heat, from the Events of Time, or Alterations in Affairs.
  • 1772, John Rutty, An Essay towards a Natural History of the County of Dublin, Volume II., page #351:
    That of 1739–40, ſeven weeks : but this laſt, tho’ the ſhorteſt appears to have been more ſevere than any of the other ; for we are expreſly aſſured by experiments on the Thermometre (A), that the cold in 1708, was more intenſe than that in 1683, and by Dr. Short that in 1715 the Thermometre was lower than in 1708, and that the Ice was 9 inches thick, whereas the Ice in 1740 was 17 Inches thick, and conſequently the Cold ſtill much greater than in 1683 (B).