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Period: Jan 1, 1543 to
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
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Thermoscope
In 1607, Galileo constructed a thermoscope -
Mercury-type thermometer
Gabriel Fahrenheit created a reliable scale for measuring temperature with a mercury-type thermometer. -
Celsius Scale
Anders Celsius proposed the "centigrade" temperature scale, the predecessor of the current Celsius scale -
Ice
Joseph Black discovered that ice absorbs heat without changing its temperature when melting. -
Nitrogen
Black's student Daniel Rutherford discovered nitrogen, which he called phlogisticated air, and together they developed the phlogiston theory. -
Oxygen
Antoine Lavoisier discovered oxygen and developed an explanation for combustion. -
Global Warming in Sydney
Of Sydney’s weather of 27th December 1790, when the mercury hit 42.8 C (109 F), half a degree Celsius higher than last Tuesday, Watkins Tench wrote; “it felt like the blast of a heated oven”. But the extreme heat wasn’t restricted to the 27th Dec 1790. The following day the temperature again surpassed the old 100 Fahrenheit mark, hitting 40.3C (104.5 F) at 12.30pm.
And later that same summer, in February 1791, the temperature in Sydney was recorded at 42.2 C (108 F). -
Global Warming GONE!
Global Warming has surprisingly been vanished and there is no more global warming thanks to the citizens on this earth !
