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Reaumur Thermometer |
 | | Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur is an instance, among many, of those persons who, having devoted the greater part of their life's to scientific investigations, become known to posterity for only one, and that often a very subordinate achievement. |
| | Reaumur is now remembered almost exclusively by his thermometer: that is to say, his mode of graduating thermometers--a very small thing in itself. |
| | Reaumur, experimenting in the same field a few years after Fahrenheit, adopted also the temperature of freezing water as his zero, and marked off 80 equal parts or degrees between that point and the temperature of boiling water. |
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