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Anders Celsius, the Swedish astronomer, created the temperature scale that bears his name. What was unusual about his original 1742 scale?
Answer: It was inverted — 0 was boiling and 100 was freezing — Celsius's original scale ran backwards from today's; it was reversed to the modern 0 = freezing, 100 = boiling shortly after by Carl Linnaeus or others.
- A It started at absolute zero
- B It was based on human body temperature
- C It was inverted — 0 was boiling and 100 was freezing ✓
- D It used a logarithmic scale
Celsius's original scale ran backwards from today's; it was reversed to the modern 0 = freezing, 100 = boiling shortly after by Carl Linnaeus or others.