The early history of instrumental precision in medicine : an address before the second Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 23rd, 1891 . nt no word of hisinvention. § I cannot find that he so sealed it as to leave a vacuum. || Ibid., p. 90. ** M. E. Renou, Histoire de Thermometre, Paris, 1876. ft Bacon first mentions the open thermometer (as I call it) in the NovumOrganum Scientiarum, 1620, and again in Historia Ventorum, and SylvaeSyl varum. ^.X Drebbel, born at Alkmaar in 1572, was clearly a charlatan. Of him aretold, according to De Nelle (op. cit. p. 83), many wonders. I
The early history of instrumental precision in medicine : an address before the second Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 23rd, 1891 . nt no word of hisinvention. § I cannot find that he so sealed it as to leave a vacuum. || Ibid., p. 90. ** M. E. Renou, Histoire de Thermometre, Paris, 1876. ft Bacon first mentions the open thermometer (as I call it) in the NovumOrganum Scientiarum, 1620, and again in Historia Ventorum, and SylvaeSyl varum. ^.X Drebbel, born at Alkmaar in 1572, was clearly a charlatan. Of him aretold, according to De Nelle (op. cit. p. 83), many wonders. In his works hedescribes as his own Galileos instrument. §§ Fludd was born in 1574 and died in 1637. I have mentioned his claimsin the text, and for a description of his instrument see Appendix A. Thereare numberless diagrams of its crude form scattered through all his queerbooks. Renou accepts his statements, but in view of his conflicting dates andthe mystical character of his writings, as well as the curious metaphysicaldeductions which he draws from his practical experiments, I think we shouldbe very guarded in founding any argument upon 12 THE EARLY HISTORY OF INSTRUMENTAL
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