-
temperature on the
Celsius temperature scale (originally
known as the
centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two
temperature scales used in the International...
- He
named it
centigrade (100 steps). Finally,
Celsius proposed a
method of
calibrating a
thermometer:
Place the
cylinder of the
thermometer in
melting ice...
- each
degree is 1 / 223.33 or 1 / 266.66 for each
degree of the
centigrade thermometer. From p. 174: " … elle nous porte, par conséquent, à
conclure que...
- the term "Celsius's
thermometer" had been used at
least as
early as 1797. Further, the term "The
Celsius or
Centigrade thermometer" was
again used in reference...
- and
frequently renewing it, they
never succeeded in
lowering the
centigrade thermometer below two-tenths of a degree; and the
average water temperature...
-
temperature with a mercury-type
thermometer. In 1742,
Anders Celsius, a
Swedish astronomer,
proposed the '
centigrade'
temperature scale, the predecessor...
-
measured with a
thermometer. It
reflects the
average kinetic energy of the
vibrating and
colliding atoms making up a substance.
Thermometers are calibrated...
- Bermuda, also
still use both scales. All
other countries now use
Celsius ("
centigrade"
until 1948),
which was
invented 18
years after the
Fahrenheit scale....
- Jean-Pierre
Christin of Lyon
publishes the
design of a
mercury thermometer with a
centigrade scale running from 0
representing the
freezing point of water...
-
Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742
proposed (an
inverted form of) the
Centigrade temperature scale which was
later renamed Celsius in his honour. Anders...
