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The history of Celsius is confusing.
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD: The international standard scale for temperature measurements in the weather context is Celsius (after the Swedish person Anders Celsius 1701 to 1744) and defined internationally by two points - absolute zero (-273.15 degrees Celsius - the start of the Kelvin temperature scale whose scale divisions match Celsius) and the triple point of purified water (0.01 degrees Celsius).
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.
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