See also:

• GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

GABRIEL See also:

• DANIEL
• DANIEL (DANIL)
• DANIEL, BOOK
• DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)

DANIEL See also:

• GABRIEL DANIEL FAHRENHEIT (1686–1936)

FAHRENHEIT (1686–1936)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German physicist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• DANZIG, or DANTSIC (Polish Gdansk)

Danzig on the 14th of May 1686 . For the most See also:

• PART

part he lived in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland, devoting himself to the study of physics and making a living, apparently, by the manufacture of meteorological See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments . He was the author of important improvements in the construction of thermometers, and he introduced the thermometric See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale known by his name and still extensively used in See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain and the See also:

• UNITED

United States (see See also:

• THERMOMETRY (Gr. Bepµos, warm; µerpov, a measure)

THERMOMETRY) . He also invented an improved See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

• HYGROMETER (Gr. hypos, moist, L Tpov, a measure)

hygrometer, a description of which, together with accounts of various observations and experiments made by him, was published in the Phil . Trans. for 1724 . He died in Holland on the 16th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1736 .