Anders Celsius death, the scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus to facilitate more practical measurement. Celsius originally called his scale centigrade derived from the Latin for "hundred steps". For years it was simply referred to as the Swedish thermometer. Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age. However, he wrongly posed the notion that the water was evaporating. In 1725 he became secretary of the
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,