Martine, a contemporary of Fahrenheit, believed that, having once fixed his zero, ... Nature - The Origin of Fahrenheit's Thermometric Scale. Skip to main content.

Temperatures in Celsius can be expressed as a number of degrees followed by the symbols ℃, or simply C. The Celsius scale has 100 degrees between water boiling and freezing, while Fahrenheit has ...

YOUR issue of February 13 contains, on p. 348, a note on the above subject, in which it is stated that Fahrenheit based his scale upon a scale previously adopted by Newton, Newton's scale having ...