Anders Celsius
The Celsius temperature scale
Swedish astronomer (1701–1744) who gave the world its everyday temperature scale.
He divided the gap between freezing and boiling water into a hundred steps — though in his version water boiled at 0 and froze at 100; the scale was flipped the right way up soon after his death. He also helped prove the Earth is flattened at the poles on an expedition to Lapland, and noticed that the northern lights make compass needles twitch.
Famous for
- The Celsius scale
- Measured the shape of the Earth in Lapland
- Linked the northern lights to magnetism
In Rubicon
Anders Celsius is one of the historical characters you can play as in Rubicon, a trivia game where you answer in your own words and an AI judge reads what you meant. Anders Celsius is filed under Earth & Space, and is strongest at Earth & Space and Natural Sciences.
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- Caroline Herschel — First paid female astronomer
- Maria Mitchell — First American woman astronomer
- Tycho Brahe — Master of the naked-eye sky
- Eratosthenes of Cyrene — Measured the Earth
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