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Celsius, the son of a mathematician, became professor of astronomy at the university in his native city of Uppsala, where he opened an observatory in 1740. In 1742 he devised a temperature scale in which the temperature of melting ice was taken as 100° and the temperature of boiling water was taken to be 0°. The modern Celsius (or centigrade) scale has the opposite fixed points (ice point 0°; steam point 100°C).
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In the paper, published two years before his death, Celsius established two fixed points on his thermometer. Zero represented the boiling point of water and 100 was the temperature at which water froze. Celsius' scale doesn't make intuitive sense now, and it apparently didn't when he developed it. After he died, his scale was inverted to what we know now as the Celsius scale, with zero representing the freezing point of water at standard atmospheric pressure and 100 the boiling point.
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[K]nown as the centigrade scale and abbreviated as C, Celsius is named after Andres Celsius and is a temperature scale in the metric system. In Celsius, water freezes at 0C and boils at 100C.
Anders Celsius, Swedish Physicist and Astronomer When Celsius became a professor of astronomy at the Uppsala University in 1730 there wasn't any large observatory in Sweden. He soon packed his bags and in 1732 began a 4-year tour of Europe, visiting the best observatories in Germany, France and Italy, and working with many of the leading 18th century astronomers.
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