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
Lou Anders to submit to "Live Without a Net". Roberson's work subsequently appeared in "Argosy" magazine, Anders' "FutureShocks" and his novels "Here, There & Everywhere" and "Paragaea: A Planetary Romance" have both been published by Pyr. Roberson was also featured in the Anders-edited anthology "Sideways in Crime" (2008). Anders notes that his anthology "Live Without a Net" was a direct reaction against a certain type of science fiction. He says, in interview with Rick Kleffel: I was reacting to what I felt was a preponderance of post-cyberpunk in American science fiction in the year 2000. The anthology was a deliberate attempt to