Medical thermometer Bahamas, Belize, and the Cayman Islands. Prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens created a clinical thermometer in 1665, to which he added an early form of the centigrade scale by setting the scale to the freezing and boiling points of water. By 1742 Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius created the Celsius temperature scale that was the reverse of the modern scale, in that "0" was the boiling point of water, while "100" was freezing. It would later be reversed by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778) in 1744. Working independently of Celsius, the Lyonnais physicist Jean-Pierre Christin, permanent secretary of
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,