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 (crater) Celsius (crater) Celsius is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged terrain in the southern hemisphere on the Moon's near side, it is named after Anders Celsius who was the founder of the Celsius temperature system which is part of the Metric system. It lies less than one crater diameter to the south-southwest of the crater Zagut, west of Rabbi Levi, and due north of Büsching. This is a heavily worn crater with a southwest rim that has been damaged by multiple small crater impacts. There is a valley-like gap in the northern rim that joins