I have a real fetish for collecting Galileo thermometers at the moment, It all started at Christmas 2002 when a good friend of mine bought me one as a gift. Since then I have become fascinated by these attractive ornamental thermometers that do actually work and yet look so pretty. HISTORY These Galileo thermometers were inspired by the thermoscope that was invented by Galileo Galilei in the early 1593, although the thermoscope thermometer is not the same as the Galileo thermometer is based on the same idea, and therefore take its name from Galileo Galilei himself. It is not known if Galileo or the ancient Greeks were responsible for the ...  Read the complete review

A few years back a friend of mine bought me something for Christmas and I had no idea what it was, and for a while it just sat in my cupboard not really doing a lot in it's box gathering dust. Until I redecorated my room, and took it into something more like an adult room - even though it's in my parents home for the time being, and I wanted something far more mature. I dug through my wardrobe and given that is was sat there I thought that it was time to get it out and popped it on my shelf and it's been there ever since. ~*~ What is a Galileo Thermometer? ~*~ To start with this was something I had to ask the internet because I had no idea what on ...  Read the complete review

I was given my Galileo Thermometer years ago as a gift. I'm really straining my memory trying to think back to when I got it, but I think my uncle may have brought it in a garden centre and gave it to me. If I am being completely honest, I never even knew that was the name for it until I did a bit of internet searching recently as I was trying to describe it to someone and realised I didn't know what they were actually called! Galileo thermometers consist of a clear, sealed glass tube with a glass base. They are filled with a clear fluid and floating inside there are little glass baubles half filled with different coloured liquids. Each bauble has a little ...  Read the complete review

*****Introduction***** I have seen these glass Galileo Thermometers around for many years, but never bought one as they were so expensive for a decorative Thermometer that I did not even think would work. For Christmas I opened this fourteen inch thermometer, I thought it was a strange gift for my sister to buy me but then I remembered how we had seen these a few months earlier and I had commented how pretty they were. So all in all this made this gift extra special as I had always admired them, and my sister remembered that. ***** The Galileo Thermometer ***** The thermometer is a glass tube that contains of five ...  Read the complete review