Template:Are You Sure/October 10

• ... that physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer (first widely used, practical, accurate thermometer) and Fahrenheit scale (first standardized temperature scale to be widely used)?

• ... that physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles?