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Description: | Portable mercury barometer ('mountain barometer'). Brass scale, graduated from 19' - 32', and vernier. Pigskin reservoir. Contained in long wooden box with ring at one end for hanging up. Thermometer missing. See John S. Reid ' A New Look at Old Linear Measures ' Annals of Science (1989) for an analysis of the scale. Quite likely to be the barometer used by Copland & Keith to measure for the first time the heights of the Deeside hills. | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1789-1800 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Miller | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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