Gopher tortoises eat many things. They eat grasses, weeds, herbs, fruits, mushrooms, pads, and flowers of prickly pear cactus. Some of thier favorite foods are gopher apple and saw palmetto berries. They will also eat bones from dead animals.nce they find their food they sniff it and start chomping away.Mostly they eat many grasses as their diet.The tortoises don't have teeth just beaks to eat their food.Then they use their tongues to bring food into its mouth. Tortoises really don't search for water unless there is a drought.
Blaise Pascal invented the first digital calculator in 1642 at the age of 16 in France to help his father with tax collection. His device was also called the Pascal's calculator or the Pascaline or the Arithmetique.
In 1612, the Italian inventor Santorio Santorio became the first inventor to put a numerical scale on his thermoscope. It was perhaps the first crude clinical thermometer, as it was designed to be place in a patient's mouth for temperature taking.Both Galilei's and Santorio's instruments were not very accurate.n 1654, the first enclosed liquid-in-a-glass thermometer was invented by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand II. The Duke used alcohol as his liquid.