"Scarcely fifteen degrees by Reaumur, which is only an increase of nine since our departure.". From Wordnik.com. [Voyage au centre de la terre. English] Reference
Fahrenheit: and that the orange resists to four degrees below freezing of Reaumur, which is twenty-three degrees above zero of Fahrenheit. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
Des Cartes, a Maupertuis, a Reaumur, and a Buffon. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
Reaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
I am employed as cashier with a firm in the rue Reaumur. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Stonewalled]
Even Reaumur could not bring himself to accept the notion, and. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference
At Astracan, Feb. 19, the cold was 28 deg. below the zero of Reaumur. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829] Reference
The barometer marked twenty-eight inches; the thermometer sixteen degrees Reaumur. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference
Goriot (to quote the Museum official again) was invariably at zero degrees — Reaumur. From Wordnik.com. [Father Goriot] Reference
French physiologist and naturalist, best known as the inventor of the Reaumur thermometer. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference
The areometer can only be just, when the atmosphere is temperate; that is, at 55° Fahrenheit, or 10° Reaumur. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain] Reference
Reaumur, the dazzling sunshine by day, and the starlight of the winter nights seemed to call for some special celebration of the season. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
At five A.M. the temperature was 7.5 degrees (Reaumur). From Wordnik.com. [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference
The temperature of his cellar is of 9 1/2° of Reaumur. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
Reaumur, that these parts are not of equal size in every male. From Wordnik.com. [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference
Reaumur narrates this case only as far as the third generation. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Nor is even the celebrated Reaumur to be acquitted of such a charge. From Wordnik.com. [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference
Reaumur tells us how his friend Duhamel, having seized a Mason-bee with. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
During the first days of November the thermometer had fallen to -12 Reaumur. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812] Reference
Just then Braisted came in with the thermometer, and announced 24° of cold (Reaumur). From Wordnik.com. [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference
Please I didn't say that Reaumur was the other greatest scientific man since Aristotle. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
As a matter of interest, I subjoin it, changing the degrees from Reaumur to Fahrenheit. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference
Bougainville never found it above twenty-two, and often under eighteen degrees of Reaumur. From Wordnik.com. [A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1] Reference
Reaumur thermometer and author of "Memoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des insectes.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
Reaumur, in light, unwadded mantles, reaching only to the waist line, and with loose sleeves. From Wordnik.com. [Russian Rambles] Reference
Mercury was at times 50° below the freezing point of Farenheit, and 22° below that of Reaumur. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1] Reference
These observations, Sir, I think will satisfy you, respecting the conjecture of our celebrated Reaumur. From Wordnik.com. [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference
Reaumur adds that insects generally know only how to do what they have to do in the ordinary course of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
It was at the beginning of October, but at Valentia the thermometer marked twenty degrees Reaumur in the shade. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Its temperature was only six degrees of Reaumur, while that of the water at the surface was twenty-three degrees. From Wordnik.com. [A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1] Reference
Starting with Reaumur, about a hundred and fifty years have elapsed since the habits of wild bees first received attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Bee] Reference
The cold was intolerable; as I learned afterward it had reached 29 deg. below zero Reaumur (36 deg. below zero Fahrenheit.). From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812] Reference
The second case is that detailed by a no less unexceptionable authority than Reaumur, in his 'Art de faire eclore les Poulets'. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Water dissolves at first a portion of the osmazome; then the albumen coagulates at 50 degrees Reaumur, and forms the foam we see. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
The climate is the mildest of Siberia, the thermometer of Reaumur seldom exceeding 30° to 34° of cold, and that but for short intervals. From Wordnik.com. [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference
Reaumur said, possibly one gnat in every hundred may be able to gratify its appetite for blood; but of the gnats in many districts in South. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
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