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ANDERS CELSIUS SCALE: Anders defined 0 on his Celsius scale as the boiling point of water and 100 on his scale as the freezing point of water. Carolus Linnaeus (1707 to 1778) in 1744 (after the death of Anders Celsius) reversed that Celsius scale, to the order we know now. Various other people are also credited with developing what was known under various names and became known in the 19th Century as the Centigrade scale.
CENTIGRADE: Zero Centigrade is the freezing point of water and 100 units from there is water's boiling point at a pressure of one standard atmosphere. Jean-Pierre Christin in 1743 independently developed a temperature scale with zero for water's freezing point and 100 for water's boiling point and in May of that year he published the design of a thermometer by a craftsman in Lyon using this scale.
*The temperature scale 'in 100 steps' or in Latin 'centum gradus' (anglicised as Centigrade) officially ceased to exist in 1948, when the unit became degrees Celsius.
*This terminology is not used in the Spanish- and French-speaking world where grad applies to angular measurement (and centigrade is equivalent to 0.009 angular degrees - angular degrees is the unit where 360 is one rotation).
*Older people still use the term Centigrade sometimes in the temperature measuring context.
*Centigrade is often quoted by TV journalists, in the UK anyway, despite them being born after 1948!
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