Celsius that used this scale. In 1744, coincident with the death of Anders Celsius, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) reversed Celsius's scale. His custom-made "linnaeus-thermometer", for use in his greenhouses, was made by Daniel Ekström, Sweden's leading maker of scientific instruments at the time, whose workshop was located in the basement of the Stockholm observatory. As often happened in this age before modern communications, numerous physicists, scientists, and instrument makers are credited with having independently developed this same scale; among them were Pehr Elvius, the secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (which had an instrument workshop) and with
Nives Celsius Nives Celsius Nives Zeljković (; born 18 December 1981), known by her stage name Nives Celzijus (Nives Celsius), is a Croatian model, singer, writer and most recently a TV actress. She is a current columnist for German "Bild" magazine and the ex-wife of the football player Dino Drpić. Nives was born in Zagreb, at the time part of Yugoslavia. Her biological, estranged, father Spaso Čanković (known as Anej Sam) was born in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina and works as a writer in Slovenia. Her mother is named Mira. Her parents separated prior to her birth. During the Croatian War,