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Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees

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By (author): Ian Hembrow

The Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (170144) was arguably the worlds first true Earth scientist. In Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees, Ian Hembrow reveals what his extraordinary, but tragically short, life and career can teach us about our today and humanitys tomorrow.

Our modern understanding of many of the Earths most awe-inspiring phenomena owes much to a modest and quietly spoken, eighteenth-century Swedish astronomer, who died of tuberculosis aged just 42. From the Northern Lights, air pressure and magnetism to the shape of the planet, sea levels and early studies of climate change, Celsius unravelled some of the greatest mysteries of his time.

Best known for inventing the 100-point centi-grade scale, Celsius name also now frames humanitys future in the international targets to limit average global temperature increases to no more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. As our world faces this life-or-death struggle, theres much we can learn from Celsius if we will listen.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Sep 2024
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781803994611

About Ian Hembrow

IAN HEMBROW is a freelance writer researcher and former visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College University of Oxford. In 2016 while working in Sweden on a book about medicine safety he stumbled across the story and legacy of Anders Celsius the largely unknown man with the extremely well-known name. Ians research took him to the Arctic Circle to retrace the steps of the pioneering 173637 expedition on which Celsius helped to prove the shape of the Earth. He lives with his wife in Bristol England.

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