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tonymetyesterday at 7:08 PM1 replyview on HN

That’s not the raw data. The original recordings were made by merchants on parchment. They measured the volume of water in a wooden box, to set the buoyancy for their loads


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foltikyesterday at 7:25 PM

What are you even talking about. They had weather stations with mercury thermometers and wrote down temperatures in a logbook.

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