German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit : (geb. zu Danzig 24. Mai 1686; gest. im Haag 16. Sept. 1736) / von Ernst cohen und W.A.T. Cohen-de Meester.

Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Reńe-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Anders Celsius / Horst Kant.

Fahrenheit's letters to Leibniz and Boerhaave / edited, translated, and annotated by Pieter van der Star.

Abhandlungen über thermometrie : von Fahrenheit, Réaumur, Celsius, (1724, 1730-1733, 1742) / Hrsg. von A.J. von Oettingen. Mit 17 figuren im text.

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Works from the collections

Fahrenheit's letters to Leibniz and Boerhaave / edited, translated, and annotated by Pieter van der Star.

Abhandlungen über thermometrie : von Fahrenheit, Réaumur, Celsius, (1724, 1730-1733, 1742) / Hrsg. von A.J. von Oettingen. Mit 17 figuren im text.