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 and Robert Koehler of "Variety" said that the film preached to the choir. Some reviewers said that "Celsius 41.11" felt like a campaign ad for Bush or, possibly, an attack ad against Kerry. Michael Graham of the "National Review" praised "Celsius 41.11" saying that "unlike Michael Moore’s film, "Celsius 41.11" is an actual documentary" and that the film was "far more logical" than "Fahrenheit 9/11". However, Graham also added that "41.11 isn't nearly as emotionally powerful as Moore’s film", a view with which Duane Dudek of the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" concurred. Philip Kennicott of the "Washington Post" described Moore's film,