THESPIS, a famous Greek tragic poet, and the first representor of tragedy at Athens. He carried his
"(3) The freezing point marked on the tube of this thermometer is immediately taken by means of grated ice but the point of by a standard mercurial thermometer, the upper point of the scale of which was properly taken by boiling water, and the lower one by grated ice; but it is more commodious in the first to have the tube no longer than the air-scale, especially as the degrees are pretty wide. The method of adjusting the scale to the inequality of the tube remains the same, let the given points be at any distance, or the divisions increased to any number.
"(4) Experimentally to prove this method, I have made mercurial thermometers, whose scales from the freezing point to that of boiling heat were nearly three feet; and though the inequalities of the tubes were very considerable, varying in contrary directions to each other, yet when they were on the same frame, they perfectly agreed in a motion of the mercury in every part of their scales."
Theffaly. his troop from village to village in a waggon, from which they performed their pieces. Alcestis was the first tragedy they performed at Athens, 536 B. C.