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Shelfmark: 19923-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 3; W.: 3; L.: 58,5; Mass: 290 g.
 
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Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: thermometer
Abstract: A Réaumur thermometer probably inscribed 'Thermometre selon Réaumur Par Fortin Place de la Sorbone Paris 1783', some of the letters being obscured by the frame of the brass suspension. The scale runs from -30° (with 6 degrees marked below) to 106°, every degree being divided into five parts.
 
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Person City Cronology   Position
name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Nicolas Fortin
resp.: maker
name: Paris
date/range: 1783
date of: construction
epoch: 18 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: 1783
date of: construction
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
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Chemistry Apparatus Thermometer