Florentine Hygrometer (replica)
name: label: maker
content: Eichner, Laurits Christian
notes: label: Description
content: Ferdinand II (1610-1670), the Grand Duke Tuscany, supported Galileo, encouraged his experimental researches, and allegedly invented this type of condensation hygrometer. L. C. Eichner made this replica for the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Saggi di naturali esperienze / fatte nell'Accademia del Cimento</i> (Firenze, 1667); reprint, 1841, p 17.
label: Description
content: W. E. K. Middleton, <i>Catalog of Meteorological Instruments in the Museum of History and Technology</i> (Washington, D.C., 1969), pp. 64-65.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319467
label: accession number
content: 238499
label: catalog number
content: 319467
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hygrometer
label: Object Name
content: hygrometer (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 12 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in; 48.26 cm x 31.75 cm x 36.83 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in; 49.53 cm x 36.83 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; cork cone: 12 1/4 in x 5 11/16 in; 31.115 cm x 14.44625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; graduated glass vessel: 6 7/16 in x 2 5/8 in; 16.35125 cm x 6.6675 cm