A thermometrical table on the scales of Fahrenheit, centigrade and Reamur : comprising the most remarkable phenomena connected with temperature, in relation to climatology, physical geography, chemistry, and physiology / by Alfred S. Taylor.

Date:
1845
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Credit: A thermometrical table on the scales of Fahrenheit, centigrade and Reamur : comprising the most remarkable phenomena connected with temperature, in relation to climatology, physical geography, chemistry, and physiology / by Alfred S. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Chemistry; and, on this point, I have one remark to make, namely, that the greatest discrepancies will often be found among respectable authorities in re- gard to temperature. It is impossible here to enter into the causes of these discrepancies. I have inva- riably acted on the principle of selecting the best authorities; and where these differed, I have endea- voured to arrive at an approximation to the truth by experiment, or where this was impossible, by seeking for corroborative circumstances. A large number of observations, made by travellers, I have been obliged to reject,—in some instances, owing to the omission or confusion of the + and — signs j and in others, owing to the observers having omitted to state what thermometers they employed. During the researches into which the compilation of this table has led me—occupying as it has done the oc- casional leisure of four years—my mind has been strongly impressed with the benefits which would accrue to science, if the philosophers of Europe would agree to employ only one scale, with small degrees and so adjusted as to render entirely unne- cessary, the use of the + and — signs. ALFRED S. TAYLOR. Cambridge Place, Regents Park. January 6, 1845.
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