The heat at eighty degrees of Fahrenheit is one thing and the heat at eighty degrees of Réaumur is a very different matter.
While their columns are dancing up and down with laughter at this somewhat tepid and low-pressure pleasantry, there come in a New York Réaumur and a Centigrade from Chicago.
Digestion is explained by Réaumur and Spallanzani, respiration by Lavoisier; Prochaska verifies the mechanism of reflex actions; Haller and Spallanzani experiment on and describe the conditions and phases of generation.
Note: Zero in the Centigrade, or Celsius thermometer, and in the Réaumur thermometer, is at the point at which water congeals.
Note: The Réaumur thermometer is so graduated that 0º marks the freezing point and 80º the boiling point of water.
Defn: Of or pertaining to René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Réaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented.
I see them scattered at random; a few of them are grouped in the same trench; but I never see them browsing economically abreast as Réaumur relates.
Réaumur has complacently described how the quilt moves forward from the tail to the head by wriggling along inclined planes, making so many dips in the undulating back.
To convert Réaumur degrees into degrees of Fahrenheit, multiply by 9, divide by 4, and add 32.
To convert Réaumur degrees into degrees of Centigrade, multiply by 5 and divide by 4.
The use of the Réaumur scale is confined almost exclusively to Russia and the north of Germany, while the Centigrade scale is used throughout the rest of Europe.
In the 18th century, Réaumur and Bonnet continued the minute study of insects, laying more stress, however, on their habits and physiology than upon their anatomy.
The emergence of the dragon-fly from its nymph-cuticle has been described by many naturalists from de Réaumur (1740) to L.
Réaumur slightly modified this opinion of the ancients, and declared his opinion that the coral was the stony product of certain marine plants.
It should be added, in order to complete the recital, that Réaumur and Bernard de Jussieu finally recognized the value of the discoveries and the validity of the reasoning of the naturalist of Marseilles.
Réaumur long contended for the contrary opinion; but it is only in our day that the animal nature of the coral is satisfactorily established.
Réaumur and Duhamel obtained, in fact, a purple colour from this species, which they applied to some stuffs, and found that it resisted the strongest lye.
What appeared impossible to Réaumur was, however, a fact which Peyssonnel had demonstrated to hundreds by his experiments at Marseilles.
In other words, Réaumur introduced into Science the views which he had keenly contested with their author.
No one doubted it, and Réaumur proclaimed everywhere the discovery of the happy Academician.
Réaumur gave to the animalcules which construct the coral the name of Polyps, and Coral to the product itself, for such he considered the architectural product of the polyps.
It seems that long before this time the French had made the determination of yield in a more scientific manner, Réaumur reporting in 1721 to the French Academy comparative studies of the yield of coppice and of volumes of wood.
In the Réaumur and centigrade scales, it is at the temperature of melting ice; in the Fahrenheit scale, it is 32° F.
A] Fahrenheit and Réaumur were both inventors of thermometers.
Réaumur arrived at the same figures from an examination of the ovaries.
All the branches examined by Réaumur which bore such eggs were branches of the mulberry: a proof that the person entrusted with the search for these eggs in the neighbourhood of Avignon did not bring much variety to his quest.
Whenever the degree of temperature is mentioned in the course of this narrative, it is according to the Centigrade scale, although it is calculated by the Réaumur thermometer, and no other, in Russia.
Work such as a Réaumur might be proud of will leave me a beggar, that goes without saying, but at least I shall have left my grain of sand.
It is with Réaumur that we are first of all tempted to compare him; and some have chosen to see in him only one who has continued Réaumur's work.
Luckier than Fabre, however, Réaumur enjoyed not only the advantages of birth, but all the material conditions necessary to his ardent intellectual activity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aumur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
