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In article <1993Jan12.150027.13866@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, DMARTIN@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA writes:
>> 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.

The story I'd heard was that the lower limit, at zero, was a mixture 
of ice, water and salt (brine), and the upper limit (at 8 dozen
degrees -- 96) was "the temperature of healthy Englishman, taken
in the armpit." (Armpit temperatures are about 1 degree F lower than
oral, which are about 1 degree F lower than rectal). I think there may 
have been some adjustments later when it was discovered that the 
freezing and boiling point of water were almost exactly 180 degrees
different.