Definition of Thermoscope. Meaning of Thermoscope. Synonyms of Thermoscope

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Definition of Thermoscope

Thermoscope
Thermoscope Ther"mo*scope, n. [Thermo- + -scope.] (Physics) An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.

Meaning of Thermoscope from wikipedia

- A thermoscope is a device that shows changes in temperature. A typical design is a tube in which a liquid rises and falls as the temperature changes....
- The difference between a thermoscope and a thermometer is that the latter has a scale.: 4  A thermometer is simply a thermoscope with a scale. ... I propose...
- thermometer called Galileo's air thermometer, more accurately called a thermoscope, in or before 1603.) The instrument now known as a Galileo thermometer...
- Galileo Galilei builds a device showing variation of hotness known as the thermoscope using the contraction of air to draw water up a tube. 1612 — Santorio...
- balances". He was one of the earliest Renaissance developers of the thermoscope and the inventor of various military comp****es, and used the telescope...
- experiments and observations that the storm-gl**** acts as a crude kind of thermoscope, inferior, for most of the purposes of observation, to the thermometer...
- Evangelista Torricelli in 1643. He also developed a device called a "Thermoscope", a precursor of the thermometer. Jean Rey died in Le Bugue, where he...
- these ancient do****ents later inspired the Renaissance inventors of the thermoscope and the air thermometer, devices which relied upon the heating and cooling...
- first to use a device to measure the pulse rate (the pulsilogium), and a thermoscope to measure temperature. In 1791 Luigi Galvani described the role of electricity...
- "Description d'un thermo-multiplicateur ou thermoscope électrique" [Description of a thermo-multiplier or electric thermoscope]. Bibliothèque Universelle (in French)...