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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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