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Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, devised a temperature scale in 1742 which had 0 as the boiling point of water and 100 as the freezing point of water.
Carolus Linnaeus is considered to be the inventor of the centigrade scale in 1744 using 0 as the melting point of ice and 100 as the boiling point of water. The term Celsius was formally adopted for this scale in 1948.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoCentigrade is also known as Celsius.Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744) defined this scale where one degree is one hundredth of the temperature difference between the triple point of water (where water can exist in all three phases usually called the freezing or melting point) and the boiling point. He originally had 0 as the boiling point and 100 as the freezing point.
In 1744, coincident with the death of Anders Celsius, the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) reversed Celsius's scale upon receipt of his first thermometer making a scale where zero represented the melting point of ice and 100 represented the boiling point.
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