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
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