Celsius, Anders (1701-44)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3529. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Mathematician and astronomer, born in Uppsala, Sweden. As professor of astronomy at Uppsala he participated in MAUPERTUIS' expedition in 1736 to the most northern part of Sweden to measure the length of a degree of latitude along a meridian, close to the pole, and compare the result with measurements near the equator. The expeditions confirmed NEWTON's opinion that the shape of the Earth is an el...

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