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Detail of glass fungus model

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 An eighteenth-century Dutch weather-glass.

Barometers were used to calculate the height of a mountain summit above sea level, but air pressure also indicated possible changes in weather. During the eighteenth century, studying the weather was a fashionable pursuit for the gentry, and barometers were increasingly hung in domestic spaces.

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