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Where did Celsius get its name?

Updated: 9/19/2023
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It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744), who developed a similar temperature scale. The unit was known until 1948 as "centigrade" from the Latin centum translated as 100 and gradus translated as "steps".

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