ANDERS See also:

• ANDERS CELSIUS (1701-1744)

CELSIUS (1701-1744)  , See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish astronomer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• UPSALA, or UPPSALA

Upsala on the 27th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1701 . He occupied the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy in the university of his native See also:

• TOWN

town from 1730 to 1744, but travelled during 1732 and some subsequent years in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy and See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . At See also:

• NUREMBERG (Ger. Nurnberg)

Nuremberg he published in 1733 a collection of 316 observations of the See also:

• AURORA
• AURORA (perhaps through a form ausosa from Sansk. ush, to burn ; the common idea of " brightness " suggests a connexion with aurum, gold)

aurora borealis made by himself and others 1716-1732 . In See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris he advocated the measurement of an arc of the See also:

• MERIDIAN
• MERIDIAN (from the Lat. meridianus, pertaining to the south or mid-day)

meridian in See also:

• LAPLAND, or LAPPLAND

Lapland, and took See also:

• PART

part, in 1736, in the expedition organized for the purpose by the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy . Six years later he described the centigrade thermometer in a See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper read before the Swedish Academy of Sciences (see See also:

• THERMOMETRY (Gr. Bepµos, warm; µerpov, a measure)

THERMOMETRY) . His See also:

• DEATH

death occurred at Upsala on the 25th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1744 . He wrote: Nova Method us distantiam See also:

• SOLIS, ANTONIO DE (1610-16S6)

solis a terra determinandi (1730); De observationibus See also:

• PRO

pro figura telluric determinanda (1738); besides many less important See also:

• WORKS

works . See W . Ostwald's Klassiker der exacten Wissenschaften, No . 57 (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1904), where See also:

• CELSIUS, ANDERS (1701-1744)

Celsius's memoir on the thermometric See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale is given in See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German with See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical and See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical notes (p . 132) ; See also:

• MARIE

Marie, Histoire See also:

• DES

des sciences, viii . 30; See also:

• POGGENDORFF, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1796-1877)

Poggendorff's Biog.-literarisches Handworterbuch .