@gutenberg_org one of my favourite 🌡️ trivia
@gutenberg_org ℃ not only stands for Celsius, or (Jeane Pierre) Christin or Carl (Linnaeus) or even the centigrade scale but for the Community of scientists whose work over the centuries made a scale so robust we take it for granted
@mountdiscovery I don't think so. The unit was called centigrade in several languages (from the Latin centum, which means 100, and gradus, which means steps) for many years. In 1948, the International Committee for Weights and Measures renamed it to honor Celsius and also to remove confusion with the term for one hundredth of a gradian in some languages.
Edited 147d ago