A piece of history to raise the temperature

It had previously been thought that Daniel Fahrenheit only ever made two of the original mercury thermometers he invented in 1714, both of which are in the collection of the Museum Boerhaave, in Leiden in the Netherlands.

Now, however, a third turned up and Christie's offered it for sale in their October 9 Travel, Scien…

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