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like many other philosophers who have greatly extended our knowledge of nature, Galileo had a remarkable aptitude for the invention of instruments designed for a philosophical research to facilitate his practical work. We find that in 15 99 he had engaged a skilled workmen who is to live in his house and be constantly at hand to try the devices, which were for ever springing from Galileo's for a break. Among the earliest of his inventions appears to have been the thermometer, which he constructed 16 02 No doubt this apparatus and its primitive form different in some respects, from the contrivance we call by the same name Galileo. It first employed water as the agent. Its expansion was the basis of the measure of temperature.