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Historical Bibliography Updated: January 30, 2020

Commentaria in artem medicinalem Galeni.

Publication Details

Venice: Jocobus Antonius Somaschus, 1612 CE.

First printed mention of the air thermometer, an instrument that played a vital part in the creation of static medicine. This device was similar to Galileo’s open-air thermoscope, of which Santorio may have known, but he was the first to transform the thermoscope into a thermometer by adding a scale with fixed reference points

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Geographic Context

Publication place: Venice