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When the weathermen tell us that \u201cit is the highest temperature for 250 years\u201d, the frame of reference for such claims was provided by Giovanni Poleni<\/strong>, the first person in the world to officially register temperatures and rainfall<\/strong> (the first records for each dating from 1713 and 1725 respectively).
\nYou will never hear \u201cit is the highest temperature for 400 years\u201d, because prior to the eigtheenth century there simply were not the instruments<\/strong> to make such measurements.
\nNo ordinary man, Poleni was a philosopher, theologian, mathematician, jurist, physicist and hydraulic engineer.<\/p>\n

Photos by Ottocentenario Universit\u00e0 di Padova<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the weathermen tell us that \u201cit is the highest temperature for 250 years\u201d, the frame of reference for such claims was provided by Giovanni Poleni, the first person in the world to officially register temperatures and rainfall (the first records for each dating from 1713 and 1725 respectively). You will never hear \u201cit is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[610,620],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curiosity","category-characters"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTemperature and Rainfall... in the name of Marchese Giovanni Poleni<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Giovanni Poleni, the first person in the world to officially register temperatures and rainfall\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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