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The hygrometer, made of cardboard, shows a figure consisting of a friar of the Capuchin Order [3] with an open book in his right hand and the left arm and the hood of the habit mobile thanks to balanced axes; In this arm he carries a bar thanks to which he indicates the weather approximately 24 hours in advance on various signs arranged from top to bottom on a column while he moves his hood to ...
He invented the cyanometer for estimating the blueness of the sky, [10] [11] the diaphanometer for judging the clarity of the atmosphere, the anemometer and the mountain eudiometer. [ 6 ] Of particular importance was a hair hygrometer that he devised and used for a series of investigations on atmospheric humidity, evaporation, clouds, fogs and ...
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD), better known in the west as Albucasis, is regarded as the father of modern surgery and is the most quoted surgeon of all times. Albucasis invented over 200 tools for use in surgery - many still in use today. Water and weight driven mechanical clocks, by Spanish Muslim engineers sometime between 900 ...
Miguel Servet (1511–1553), known in English by his Latin name of Michael Servetus, scientist, surgeon and humanist; first European to describe pulmonary circulation. [58] Luis Simarro Lacabra (1851–1921), psychiatrist; developed a silver bromide modification of Camillo Golgi's silver chromate technique. [59]
A hygrometer is an instrument which measures the humidity of air or some other gas: that is, how much of it is water vapor. [1] Humidity measurement instruments usually rely on measurements of some other quantities, such as temperature, pressure, mass, and mechanical or electrical changes in a substance as moisture is absorbed.
Pocket watches are known since the early 1500s, due to the pomander-shaped watch from 1505 made by Peter Henlein in Nuremberg, Germany, rather far away from the sea. The first to suggest traveling with a clock to determine longitude, in 1530, was Gemma Frisius , a physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker from ...
1441 – King Sejongs son, Prince Munjong, invented the first standardized rain gauge. These were sent throughout the Joseon Dynasty of Korea as an official tool to assess land taxes based upon a farmer's potential harvest. Anemometers. 1450 – Leone Battista Alberti developed a swinging-plate anemometer, and is known as the first anemometer. [22]
In 1441, King Sejong's son, Prince Munjong, invented the first standardized rain gauge. These were sent throughout the Joseon dynasty of South Korea as an official tool to assess land taxes based upon a farmer's potential harvest. In 1450, Leone Battista Alberti developed a swinging-plate anemometer, and is known as the first anemometer. [1]