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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Thermoscope \Ther"mo*scope\, n. [Thermo- + -scope.] (Physics) An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer. [1913 Webster]