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The thermometer was invented because people wouldn’t stop arguing about “cold.”

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Thermometers developed over centuries, with early thermoscopes by Galileo and others, and the mercury thermometer by Daniel Fahrenheit in the early 18th century. They were invented to measure temperature objectively.

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