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Olof Celsius (July 19 1670 -June 24 1756) was a Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University
Uppsala University

Uppsala University is a world-class research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded as early as 1477, it is the oldest such institution in the Nordic countries and is frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities....
, Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus was a Sweden botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern alpha taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology....
. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicos, in 1745-47.

Olof Celsius's nephew Anders Celsius
Anders Celsius

Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomy. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France....
 was an astronomer who invented a temperature scale where 0 represented the boiling point and 100 the freezing point of water.






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Olof Celsius (July 19 1670 -June 24 1756) was a Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University
Uppsala University

Uppsala University is a world-class research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded as early as 1477, it is the oldest such institution in the Nordic countries and is frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities....
, Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus was a Sweden botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern alpha taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology....
. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicos, in 1745-47.

Olof Celsius's nephew Anders Celsius
Anders Celsius

Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomy. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France....
 was an astronomer who invented a temperature scale where 0 represented the boiling point and 100 the freezing point of water. Linnaeus in 1744 reversed the scale to the Celsius scale we use today (previously known as the centigrade scale).