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Coining of "thermometer"

The word thermometer (in its French form) first appeared in 1624 in La Récréation Mathématique by Jean Leurechon, who describes one with a scale of 8 degrees. The word comes from the Greek words θερμός, thermos, meaning "hot" and μέτρον, metron, meaning "measure".