On 18/02/2021 11:12, Tim Streater wrote:
On 18 Feb 2021 at 10:57:34 GMT, charles wrote:

In article , NY wrote:
"Peter Able" wrote in message
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Fahrenheit has had a bad, bad, press over the centuries

It was, after all, the ORIGINAL centigrade temperature scale.

Celsius was a relatively late-coming plagiarist !

It may have been centigrade, but those hundred degrees were relative to
random temperatures (the coldest and hottest that Fahrenheit could
achieve). The freezing and boiling point of water are easier for a
layman to understand than the freezing point of saturated brine or
whatever was used for 100.

i was taught that it was blood heat.

IOW, not arbitrary. Unlike the metre, which *is* arbitrary.

Absolutely not. One 40 millionth of the earths circumference measured by
a Frenchmens in Paris, or summat



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