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CELSIUS, ANDERS (1701-1744)

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CELSIUS, ANDERS (1701-1744) , See also:Swedish astronomer, was See also:born at See also:Upsala on the 27th of See also:November 1701. He occupied the See also:chair of See also:astronomy in the university of his native See also:town from 1730 to 1744, but travelled during 1732 and some subsequent years in See also:Germany, See also:Italy and See also:France. At See also:Nuremberg he published in 1733 a collection of 316 observations of the See also:aurora borealis made by himself and others 1716-1732. In See also:Paris he advocated the measurement of an arc of the See also:meridian in See also:Lapland, and took See also:part, in 1736, in the expedition organized for the purpose by the See also:French See also:Academy. Six years later he described the centigrade thermometer in a See also:paper read before the Swedish Academy of Sciences (see See also:THERMOMETRY). His See also:death occurred at Upsala on the 25th of See also:April 1744. He wrote: Nova Method us distantiam See also:solis a terra determinandi (1730); De observationibus See also:pro figura telluric determinanda (1738); besides many less important See also:works. See W. Ostwald's Klassiker der exacten Wissenschaften, No. 57 (See also:Leipzig, 1904), where Celsius's memoir on the thermometric See also:scale is given in See also:German with See also:critical and See also:biographical notes (p. 132) ; See also:Marie, Histoire See also:des sciences, viii. 30; See also:Poggendorff's Biog.-literarisches Handworterbuch.

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