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Galileo measured heat with floating glass bubbles

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Instead of a boring dial, the brilliant Italian stuffed glass spheres filled with colorful liquids into a sealed tube. As the ambient warmth changed the liquid density, the bubbles floated or sank, making thermal reading oddly beautiful.

Galileo measured heat with floating glass bubbles
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