The property of objects that determines the direction of heat flow when they are placed in direct thermal contact. The temperature is the energy of microscopic motions (vibrational and translational) of the particles of atoms.
    

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A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one nurse checks a patient's temperature, a second washes a black man's face. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A pyrometer: shown in and out of its box. Engraving, mid eighteenth century.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three nurses attempting to read thermometers as a fourth writes down the results. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A domestic weather-station: combined thermometer, hygrometer, and barometer. Engraving after B. Martin.

Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the year 1812. Coloured engraving, 1813, after T. Hanson, 1812.

The climatic physiology of the pig / by L.E. Mount.

Temperatur und Leben / von H. Precht, J. Christophersen, H. Hensel.

Anabioz / P. I︠U︡. Shmidt.

Caisso, Jean Benjamin (1835-)

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Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the year 1812. Coloured engraving, 1813, after T. Hanson, 1812.

The climatic physiology of the pig / by L.E. Mount.

Temperatur und Leben / von H. Precht, J. Christophersen, H. Hensel.

Anabioz / P. I︠U︡. Shmidt.

Caisso, Jean Benjamin (1835-)