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IN my opinion, Dr. J. Newton Friend's recent article on “The Origin of Fahrenheit's Thermometric Scale”1 contains some misunderstandings as to the nature of Ole Rømer's work on the thermometer, as will be shown in the following commentary.
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NATURE, 139, 395 (1937).
For a detailed review, see Kirstine Meyer, NATURE, 82, 296 (1910).
Quoted from ” Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit”, by Ernst Cohen and W. A. T. Cohen-De Meester . Verhandl. der koninklijke Akademie van Wettenschappen te Amsterdam. Afdeeling Natuurkunde, Deel XVI, No. 2. Amsterdam, 1931. The authors have translated the letter from Dutch to German.
Phil. Trans., 33, 73 (1724).
Phil. Trans., No. 324 (1709); cf. NATURE, 82, 297 (1910).
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MEYER, K. Ole Rømer's and Fahrenheit's Thermometers. Nature 139, 585–586 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139585a0
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