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CHRONOLOGICAL EPITOME.


1595 Open air-thermoscope invented by Galileo.
1611 Sanctorius applies Galileo's instrument to the diagnosis of fevers.
1611 Telioux' thermoscope.
1617 The word "thermoscope" used by Giuseppe Bianconi.
1624 The word "thermometer" used by Leurechon.
1632 Water-thermoscope invented by Jean Rey.
1641 Sealed alcohol thermometers of Ferdinand II.
1651 Caspar Ens originates the Drebbel myth.
1643 Kircher's thermoscopes.
1657 Differential thermometer of Caspar Schott.
1660 Giant thermometer of De Guericke, and self-registering thermometer.
1661 Fabri makes a scale by dividing the interval between the temperature of snow and of mid-summer heat.
1664 Freezing-point of water taken as a fixed point on scale by Robert Hooke.
1665 Boyle uses aniseed oil to get fixed point on scale.
1667 Florentine thermometers described in the "Saggi."
1670 Paris thermometer.
1688 Dalencé publishes his "Traitté" and proposes divers scales.