Comment on Burning Up

• NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like this version better than “he had a fever when he measured 100 degrees” so I will choose to believe it without further research.

  I hope you are correct.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    archive.org/…/paper-doi-10_1098_rstl_1777_0038

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    • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Report of the Committee Appointed by the Royal Society to Consider of the Best Method of Adjusting the Fixed Points of Thermometers; And of the Precautions Necessary to Be Used in Making Experiments with Those Instruments

      Seems fancy and legit, I see no reason to actually read it and confirm the info.

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      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Welcome to peer review!

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• morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Horse* body temp

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• doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure that wasn’t actually Fahrenheit’s intention, more a happy accident. Also if your body temp is 100°F then you’re running a mild/moderate fever.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The scale was adjusted later to make freezing and boiling points land on exact numbers with an easily-divisible 180-dregrees between them (180 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 20, 36, 45, 60, and 90).

    archive.org/…/paper-doi-10_1098_rstl_1777_0038

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  • nulluser@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t usually run, but when I do, I run a mild/moderate fever.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I heard circular thermometers were how it was done then so they lined up 180° with 180°.

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• uienia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It literally was not.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I cited and linked my source from the 18th century when it was redefined. What’s yours?

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