The construction and use of a thermometer for showing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat and other meteorological observations / By James Six.

  • Six, James, 1731-1793.
Date:
1794
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Credit: The construction and use of a thermometer for showing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat and other meteorological observations / By James Six. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Happy it was that his mind was open to the confolations of religion, when a{fli6led with the lofs of an only fon, whofe virtues and accomplifliments anfwered his fondeft willies ; who in his twenty-ninth year died, and was interred in Italy. It need not therefore be told with what exemplary for- titude and refignation he fupported that mod; fevere inflidion; nor can the merit of his amiable fon derive any additional luftre from the attempt of a feeble, and it may be faid, a partial encomiafl. Suffice it to refer to a flight account of him given in the * Obituary of the Gentleman’s Ma- zine * “ At Rome, James Si x,M. A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- bridge. Ke was a young man of great natural abilities, and of exten- five learning. He underftood the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and German languages, and in moft, if not all of them, had a well-grounded and accurate knowledge : of his claflical and mathe- matical learning, the feveral prizes which he obtained during the courfc of his academical ftudies, are an eminent and honourable proof. Two beautiful odes (vol. LIV. p 285, 286,) tranflaied from the German, give no mean idea of his poetical powers; and, as a draughtfman, his dcfigns were executed with wonderful neatnefs and elegance. To thefe accomplifiimcnts, which adorn focicty, he added a fweetnefs of manners, and a benevolence of difpofition, that endeared him to his family and friends, and gained him, whercToever he went, attention and ellecm. He wa? buried at Rome [fee p. 72], in a place appro- priated