Skip to main content. Search for:. Describe the Fahrenheit temperature scale. Describe the Celsius temperature scale. Describe the Kelvin temperature scale. What is temperature? Figure 2. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. Figure 3. Anders Celsius. Figure 4. Lord Kelvin. Figure 5. Later Fahrenheit established that the boiling point of water came in at degrees.
Over time this replaced body temperature as the upper landmark on his scale. Meanwhile, as more precise measurements were made, body temperature had to be adjusted to Lest we get too down on Fahrenheit, though, consider Anders Celsius, who devised the centigrade scale 0 to Trouble is, the original Celsius scale had for freezing, 0 for boiling.
In other words, it was upside down. You have to wonder whether these guys breathed one lungful of mercury fumes too many. Now for a little bonus info. At what temperature do the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales read the same? Why, minus 40, of course. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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