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Objekt 13

Column barometer and column thermometer

Object description

Printer: Gabriel Bodenehr

probably Augsburg

Mercury (barometer) and red alcohol (thermometer) in glass capillaries, wooden board, painted blue and covered with two copper engravings

Inscriptions: MAGNUM BAROMETRUM / Praedicitur Ventus Pluia [sic] Vel Aura Serena / plus five weather specifications in German, French, Latin and Italian / THERMOMETRUM ACADEMIA FLORENTINA / in addition to the scale temperature specifications in Italian, Latin and German

Gift 1875 to Prof. Fritz Burckhardt

Deposit Institute of Physics of the University of Basel, Phys. 558.

Inv. 1986.411.

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