What the Fahrenheit?!
The crazy story of the arbitrary temperature scale used in a tiny minority of countries. Check out Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVe Snatoms are available again! http://www.snatoms.com Support...
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As an Australian Canadianthe Fahrenheit temperature scale has always seemed a bit arbitrary to me.I mean why does water freezes at 32 degrees?Why that integer and what exactly does 0 represent?According to many sourcesthe Fahrenheit scale was defined by setting 0 degreesequal to the temperature of the ice salt and water mixtureAnd a hundred degrees being roughly equal to human body temperature.But that isn't true.The real story is much more interesting and scientific.August 14th, 1701 was almost certainly the worst dayin the life of 15 year-old Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.On that day, both of his parents died suddenly from mushroom poisoning.And he was sent from Poland where he livedto Amsterdam to become an apprentice bookkeeper.But Fahrenheit couldn't ...
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As an Australian Canadianthe Fahrenheit temperature scale has always seemed a bit arbitrary to me.I mean why does water freezes at 32 degrees?Why that integer and what exactly does 0 represent?According to many sourcesthe Fahrenheit scale was defined by setting 0 degreesequal to the temperature of the ice salt and water mixtureAnd a hundred degrees being roughly equal to human body temperature.But that isn't true.The real story is much more interesting and scientific.August 14th, 1701 was almost certainly the worst dayin the life of 15 year-old Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.On that day, both of his parents died suddenly from mushroom poisoning.And he was sent from Poland where he livedto Amsterdam to become an apprentice bookkeeper.But Fahrenheit couldn't ...
