That’s some weird logic there. Why 32 and 96? From what I remember, 100 was supposed to be human body temperature (but he had it wrong), and 0 was the coldest temperature he could achieve with brine.
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TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 7 months agoI don’t know if this’ll help, but I find it interesting. Fahrenheit was designed to make creating thermometers easier. You pop your new thermometer into some ice water, call that 32, pop it in your mouth, call that 96 (human body temperature is actually 98.6, but these weren’t the most precise instruments), and then you can just keep dividing the space between them in half until you get 64 degrees.
Obviously Celsius is more scientific and practical in modern times, but I think Fahrenheit is fascinating, if nothing else.
anguo@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To add, I remember being told (rumor?) the reasoning for the 100° body temp was that it was created before modern medicine and was supposed to be the avarage temp of the population given that being slightly febrile was supposed to be normal.
(I don’t know how true this is as I don’t really care about the imperial system and don’t really feel assed to research it. Just relaying what I’ve been told)
eee@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I don’t understand your logic. I could just as easily change your text to say
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not really. You get to 12.5 pretty quickly with 100 degrees. 64 is better due to it being a square of 2.
Pok@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How does that make it better?