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Old 06-29-2007, 07:50 AM   #23
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The upper end is based on human body temperature, not the hottest days. IIRC they were either measuring someone with a slight fever or the thermometer was not quite as accurate as we have now.

And 0 is not remotely the coldest where I'm from, that's a pretty typical temperature in January for us. We routinely see -30C here (-22F) and a few times each winter it will hit -40 (same either scale).
Well, he was in Germany. For temperate regions, it works out quite well. And the body-temperature theory is one of many. The stuff I've read on the matter continually says he measured his own body temperature at 96° on his scale. But, regardless of the origins, it's still a much better scale for environmental temperature than Celsius. First rule of units - if you're going to be arbitrary, at least be relevant.
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