THERMOMETRICAL • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Thermometrical

... at Germantown, seven miles from the city. The thermometrical mean is that from daily observations made by this gentleman at sunrise and at ...

— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... 50," and so on. The arbitrary numbers used range from 30 to 80, in order to allow for possible earlier and later additions, which may be rendered necessary by the progress of discovery. The numbers are of course as purely arbitrary and relative as those of the different thermometrical systems, but they afford a convenient system of arrangement. The products of the prehistoric Egyptians are, so to speak, distributed on a conventional plan over a scale numbered from 30 to 80, 30 representing the beginning and 80 the close of the term, so far as its close ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery • L.W. King and H.R. Hall