Olof Celsius Olof Celsius Olof Celsius (the elder) (19 July 1670 – 24 June 1756) was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, "Hierobotanicon", in 1745-47. Olof Celsius's nephew Anders Celsius was an astronomer who invented a temperature scale where 100 represented the freezing point of water and 0 represented the boiling point. Jean-Pierre Christin, in 1744 reversed the scale to create the centigrade scale, renamed in 1948 to the Celsius scale in use today.
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