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From: gadfly@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: metric system
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Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 10:39:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 10 10:39:49 1987
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Summary: Herr Fahrenheit

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> > For the record, 0 degrees F is the temperature at which saturated brine
> > freezes.
> 
> ..Apparently Fahrenheit came up with his scale of temperature
> based on what *he* could achieve and measure...
> 
> Bob Devine

I thought Fahrenheit based his scale on what he measured (presumably over
some years) to be the coldest (0) and hottest (100) ambient temperatures
to occur wherever it was in Germany he came from.  It is thus a better scale
for generic weather description than Celsius.

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