Abstract
THE thermometer, practically as we now have it, is an instrument several centuries old, and by far the most popular of all scientific apparatus. Yet probably much less is generally known about it than about its companion implements the barometer and the telescope. The reason for this want of knowledge lies doubtless in the fact that the common use of the thermometer is chiefly for rough observations on the temperature of the air, and for this the ordinary instruments are sufficiently accurate as they leave the maker.
Traité pratique de la Thermométrie de précision.
Par Ch. Ed. Guillaume. Pp. xv, and 336. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1889.)
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MILLS, E. Exact Thermometry. Nature 41, 100–101 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/041100a0
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