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Re: Temperature Scales



Does anyone know how the Fahrenheit scale was determined?

Tony, check out
http://mailgate.nau.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9803&L=phys-l&P=R21364

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit developed his scale from Ole Roemer's two-point
calibration scale.

Rick

Richard G. Strickert
URS Radian
Austin, TX