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Re: Temperature Scales

What's the basis for doubting Brahe's 'replacement silver nose'? Plenty of
portraits/drawings of him WITH it! The story is/was the injury was the
result of dueling? Historians on the list--what about this?

Rick

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Rogoway" <rogoway@SJM.INFI.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: Temperature Scales


It's a lot more fun to share the "wife's bath water" anecdote with a high
school
class than the other. But then I have to give them the disclaimer tat it
may not
be true. The same with the story of Tycho Brahe's silver nose.


Ray Rogoway