Galileo, the man pretty much responsible for the birth of modern science, didn't invent the Galileo Thermometer. Instead, it was named in his honor since without his discoveries, it wouldn't have been possible to invent.
A team of physicists has devised a thermometer that can potentially measure temperatures as low as tens of trillionths of a degree above absolute zero.
George Clifford was a rich financier with a great interest in horticulture and exotic animals. At his country house Hartecamp he had founded a botanical and zoological centre that Linnaeus was to be responsible for.
George Clifford was a rich financier with a great interest in horticulture and exotic animals. At his country house Hartecamp he had founded a botanical and zoological centre that Linnaeus was to be responsible for.
For his new orangery with its annexes, the solarium (sun house) and the vaporarium (steam house), Linnaeus required a functional thermometer in order to control the environment in the best possible way for his valuable plant material.
