Indeed, “any scale, including Fahrenheit or Celsius or even Réaumur, can be linked to the metric system with equal ease,” wrote Eric Pinder, author of Tying Down the Wind: Adventures in the ...

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit concocted the Fahrenheit scale for measuring temperature in the year 1724, and he didn't stop there ...

In most of the world (except for the United States, Jamaica, and a few other countries), the degree Celsius scale is used for most temperature measuring purposes. The entire scientific world (the ...