Réaumur, French scientist, born in La Rochelle; made valuable researches and discoveries in the industrial arts as well as in natural history; is best known as the inventor of the thermometer that bears his name, which is graduated into 80 degrees from the temperature of melting ice to that of boiling water (1683‒1757).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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