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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: metric system
Message-ID: <2737@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 22:03:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 13 22:03:49 1987
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In article <4958@ihlpa.ATT.COM> gadfly@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Gadfly) writes:
>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.

My high school text books had the same story, but Robert Fahrenheit was
English.  Anybody know the real story?
-- 
(C) Copyright 1987 Laura Creighton - you may redistribute only if your 
    recipients may.

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