25: Fahrenheit and Celsius Jan 2, 2015

With the temperature finally going down in the North East, today's words are in the theme of temperature. Fahrenheit is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, after whom the scale is named. Celsius is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius. The unit was known until 1948 as "centigrade" from the Latin 'centum' translated as 100 and 'gradus' translated as "steps".