Lufttermometer

International names:

Thermometer. Drebbel's

Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Thermometer. Drebbel's, U-tube open at the bottom and with a closed bulb at the top. L810. Mounted on a painted pine plate. 890x102. Rounded top and bottom. Scale, painted in black on the wood: (from top down) 10,5,0,10,15 20,25,30. Danish text, at 0 "Fryse-Punct", at lower 10 "Tem-pereri", at 15 "Syge-Stue", at 17 "Driive-Huus", at 19 "Silke-Orme", at 26 "Kiöben...1750".Signed: A.Molinari f. / Kiöbenhavn.Thermometrum af Drebelc1800 (g)

• Category: Heat
• Hauch number: E20
• Inventory number: 6180
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 471

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §235
• Cabinet 1: Bd.2 p.49; 16,07

• Literature:

• Gehler(1787-96) IV p.310 pl.XXIV fig.45
  Middleton(1966)