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.