Anders Celsius Determining the Shape of the Earth"). Celsius' participation in the Lapland expedition won him much respect in Sweden with the government and his peers, and played a key role in generating interest from the Swedish authorities in donating the resources required to construct a new modern observatory in Uppsala. He was successful in the request, and Celsius founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741. The observatory was equipped with instruments purchased during his long voyage abroad, comprising the most modern instrumental technology of the period. In astronomy, Celsius began a series of observations using colored glass plates to record the
Celsius 41.11 of what Moore shows of the current Bush administration." Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" compared "Celsius 41.11" unfavorably to "FahrenHYPE 9/11", another documentary film aimed at rebutting the arguments made by Michael Moore. While Dargis felt that the purpose of "FahrenHYPE 9/11" was the detailed rebutting of the arguments put forward by Moore's film, she felt that the purpose of "Celsius 41.11" was to "make you afraid — very, very afraid". She stated that "Celsius 41.11" "presents a vision of the world verging on the apocalyptic". Dargis concluded "finally [the film is] interesting only because it represents another