Re: Celsius and Farenheit Scale Determination

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From: DMARTIN
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:56

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> From: mcp@netcom.com (Craig Presnell)
> equally dividing the points in between. Apparently Farenheit had the
> same idea, but wanted something colder to be 0 degress, so alcohol
> and ice were used. The question is, what was used to determine the
> upper end of the scale ?

Body temperature, or so I understand. With a "normal" body temperature of
98.6, calling it 100 isn't that far off.

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