Celsius Didn't Invent Celsius
Celsius never devised nor used the scale that now bears his name. Veritasium is now on Patreon: http://patreon.com/veritasium Special thanks to Michael Stevens of Vsauce! http://youtube.com/vsauc...
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>> DEREK: How did Celsius define his scale?>> MICHAEL: Uh... He took the temperature water freezes at and said that's zero and then he took thetemperature it boils at and says that's a hundred. And he figured a hundredwas a good amount of demarcations to make in between the two. Right?>> DEREK: Yeah. Except that's not what he did. >> MICHAEL: Really?>> DEREK: Celsius never devised nor used the scale that now bears his name.>> MICHAEL: Are you kidding me? >> DEREK: No, Michael, I'm not!This is the Swedish town of Uppsala, located 70 kilometers north of Stockholm.So this is the house where Celsius lived. In 1741 he was professor of ast...
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>> DEREK: How did Celsius define his scale?>> MICHAEL: Uh... He took the temperature water freezes at and said that's zero and then he took thetemperature it boils at and says that's a hundred. And he figured a hundredwas a good amount of demarcations to make in between the two. Right?>> DEREK: Yeah. Except that's not what he did. >> MICHAEL: Really?>> DEREK: Celsius never devised nor used the scale that now bears his name.>> MICHAEL: Are you kidding me? >> DEREK: No, Michael, I'm not!This is the Swedish town of Uppsala, located 70 kilometers north of Stockholm.So this is the house where Celsius lived. In 1741 he was professor of ast...
