Alcohol thermometer Duke of Tuscany, who in 1654 made sealed tubes partly filled with alcohol or urine, with a bulb and stem, depending on the expansion of a liquid, and independent of air pressure. Other sources, including the Encyclopædia Britannica, credit German scientist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit with inventing the alcohol thermometer in 1709. Fahrenheit was a skilled glassblower and his alcohol thermometer was the world's first reliable thermometer. Alcohol thermometer The alcohol thermometer or spirit thermometer is an alternative to the mercury-in-glass thermometer and has similar functions. Unlike the mercury-in-glass thermometer, the contents of an alcohol thermometer are less toxic and will
Gabriel Daniel accuracy, Daniel had the advantage of consulting valuable original sources. His "Histoire de la milice française", etc. (1721) is superior to his "Histoire de France". Daniel also wrote a reply to Pascal's "Provincial Letters", entitled "Entretiens de Cleanthe et d'Eudoxe sur les lettres provinciales" (1694); two treatises on Descartes' theory as to the intelligence of the lower animals, and other works. Gabriel Daniel Gabriel Daniel (8 February 1649 – 23 June 1728) was a French Jesuit historian. Born in Rouen, he was educated by the Jesuits, entered the order at the age of eighteen, and became superior at Paris. He