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Discussion Forum : Inventions - Section 1 (Q.No. 7)
7.
What Galileo invented?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
Various authors have credited the invention of the thermometer to Cornelius Drebbel, Robert Fludd, Galileo Galilei or Santorio Santorio. The thermometer was not a single invention, however, but a development.
Galileo Galilei also discovered that objects (glass spheres filled with aqueous alcohol) of slightly different densities would rise and fall, which is nowadays the principle of the Galileo thermometer (shown). Today such thermometers are calibrated to a temperature scale.
Discussion:
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Debashis Das said:
4 years ago
Pendulum Clock invented by Christian Huygens.
Kshetra said:
5 years ago
Galileo had invented pendulum but from where this thermometer has come.
Kshetra said:
5 years ago
Then who invented pendulum.
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Shy said:
7 years ago
Galileo invented telescope.
Is it right?
Is it right?
(1)
Prasanthi said:
7 years ago
Who invented pendulum?
Anvita Mohapatra said:
8 years ago
I think, it's wrong. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit invented the thermometer.
SHASHANK sHREY said:
8 years ago
Thanks a lot, @Gitesh Narayan Patil.
Gitesh Narayan Patil said:
9 years ago
Guys let me clear the confusion.
Barometer - Evangelista Torricelli.
Thermometer - Santorio was the first to apply a numerical scale to his thermoscope, which later evolved into the thermometer. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit who invented the alcohol thermometer in 1709, and the mercury thermometer in 1714.
Pendulum Clock - Christiaan Huygens.
Microscope - Zacharias Janssen.
Telescope - Hans Lippershey.
What about Galileo then?
After the invention of Telescope - Hans Lippershey, He is the one used it and made changes for further development.
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Galileo heard of Microscope experiments and started experimenting on his own. He described the principles of lenses and light rays and improved both the microscope and telescope.
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Although Thermometer named after Italian physicist Galileo Galilei, He himself explained in his book that he is not the inventor of the actual thermometer. He did invented thermometer called Galileo Thermometer.
(specifically Thermoscope) in or before 1603.
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So the answer would be a thermometer. :)
Hope, this will clear your doubts.
Barometer - Evangelista Torricelli.
Thermometer - Santorio was the first to apply a numerical scale to his thermoscope, which later evolved into the thermometer. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit who invented the alcohol thermometer in 1709, and the mercury thermometer in 1714.
Pendulum Clock - Christiaan Huygens.
Microscope - Zacharias Janssen.
Telescope - Hans Lippershey.
What about Galileo then?
After the invention of Telescope - Hans Lippershey, He is the one used it and made changes for further development.
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Galileo heard of Microscope experiments and started experimenting on his own. He described the principles of lenses and light rays and improved both the microscope and telescope.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Although Thermometer named after Italian physicist Galileo Galilei, He himself explained in his book that he is not the inventor of the actual thermometer. He did invented thermometer called Galileo Thermometer.
(specifically Thermoscope) in or before 1603.
---------------------------------------------------------------
So the answer would be a thermometer. :)
Hope, this will clear your doubts.
(4)
Charulata said:
9 years ago
Galileo only invented "Pendulum clock and also thermometer".
Nick said:
10 years ago
How could Galileo invent thermometer?
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