China's earliest thermometer in pre-qin, called 'ice pail'

As is known to all, the first thermometer is in 1593 by the Italian scientist Galileo ( 1564 ~ 1642) The invention. His first thermometer is only a glass tube exposure at one end, on the other side with walnut large glass bulb. When using heated the glass bulb first and then put the glass tube into the water. As the change of temperature, the water in the glass tube is mobile, based on what mobile can determine the change of temperature and temperature of high and low. Shunzhi years, Belgian missionaries verbiest western thermometer concept into China for the first time. In fact, as early as the pre-qin, China has been the concept of temperature. Delta is the earliest thermometer delta qing shunzhi years missionaries made verbiest thermometer it is a kind of can observe temperature changes & other; The bottle & throughout; : the bottle filled with water, if the water is frozen, the temperature is below freezing, and in winter; If the ice melts, the rise of temperature. This bottle is said & other; Ice pail & throughout; , also called & other; Aquarius & throughout; Is China one of the most original thermometer, the prototype of the thermometer is considered now generation. What ice bottle shape measurement tools? Modern archaeology have been found in the physical, but from the literature, the pre-qin Chinese had already in use. Lv buwei 'on & middot; Tabled in large & middot; Was found today, 'with the notion that & other; See the bottle of water ice, and know the world is cold, YuBie of hide. ” The general meaning of this sentence is, see the bottle of water ice, knew that the weather has been cold, YuBie has been hidden. This is the ancient people use water in different temperature & other Water - Ice - Water & throughout; The shape of the change, to estimate the temperature drop and rise in technology. Similar to that in the han huai nun tzu 'huai south son & middot; Said in the mountain, 'also recorded: & other; See the bottle of ice, and know the world is cold. ” For the 'spring and autumn annals' and 'huai south son' say & other; The bottle & throughout; , is a kind of & other; The thermometer & throughout; , no specific account. May be because of this, & other; Ice pail & throughout; The thermometer is not the modern academic attention and recognition, vessels be mistaken for an ordinary life.