Olof Celsius

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Olof Celsius (the elder) (July 19, 1670 – June 24, 1756) was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden.^[1] Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carolus Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicos, in 1745-47.

Olof Celsius's nephew Anders Celsius was an astronomer who invented a temperature scale where 0 represented the boiling point of water and 100 represented the freezing point of water. Carl Linnaeus in 1744 reversed the scale to create the centigrade scale, renamed in 1948 to the Celsius scale in use today.

Olof Celsius was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1739.

The standard author abbreviation Celsius is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

References

↑ Encyclopædia Britannica, Retrieved on June 24, 2008
↑ "Author Query for 'Celsius'". International Plant Names Index.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 17577661 LCCN: nr91043992 ISNI: 0000 0000 6632 4121 GND: 100828337 BNF: cb16046708z

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Name	Celsius, Olof
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Short description	Swedish botanist
Date of birth	July 19, 1670
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Date of death	June 24, 1756
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