The Weatherglass And Its Observers In The Early Seventeenth Century

@inproceedings{Borrelli2008TheWA,
  title={The Weatherglass And Its Observers In The Early Seventeenth Century},
  author={Arianna Borrelli},
  year={2008}
}
Introduction: the inverted-glass experiment -- Giovanni Battista della Porta's four books on natural magic (1558): a marvel of glass, water, fire and air 
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