Réaumur
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( a.) Of or pertaining to Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Reaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented.
(2): ( n.) A Reaumur thermometer or scale.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
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).
