Mathematician:Anders Celsius

Mathematician
Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician whose best known contribution to science was his $1742$ proposal of what is now known as the Celsius temperature scale.

Nationality
Swedish

History

 * Born: 27 November 1701 in Uppsala, Sweden
 * Died: 25 April 1744 in Uppsala, Sweden

Theorems and Definitions

 * Celsius Temperature Scale

Publications

 * 1730: Nova Methodus distantiam solis a terra determinandi (New Method for Determining the Distance from the Earth to the Sun)
 * 1738: De observationibus pro figura telluris determinanda (Observations on Determining the Shape of the Earth)