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Celsius was born at Ovanåker in Sweden. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but travelled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France.
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Celsius was one of the founders of the Uppsala Astronomical ObservatoryThe Uppsala Astronomical Obervatory is an astronomical observatory in Sweden. It was founded in 1730, though there was a professorial chair of astronomy at the University of Uppsala from 1593 and the university archives include lecture notes in astronomy in 1741. He is best known for the Celsius temperature scale, first proposed in a paper to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1742.
He died of tuberculosis in Uppsala.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica