Anders Celsius death, the scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus to facilitate more practical measurement. Celsius originally called his scale centigrade derived from the Latin for "hundred steps". For years it was simply referred to as the Swedish thermometer. Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age. However, he wrongly posed the notion that the water was evaporating. In 1725 he became secretary of the
Anders Sandvig Anders Sandvig Anders Sandvig (11 May 1862 – 11 February 1950) was a Norwegian dentist most noted for having founded Maihaugen, an innovative regional ethnological and architectural museum in Lillehammer, documenting the vernacular architecture of Gudbrandsdalen. Sandvig was born at Bud in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He first worked as an apprentice with a jeweler in Kristiansund. He was trained as a dentist in Kristiansund with later training at the University of Oslo and in Berlin. He contracted tuberculosis and in 1885 moved to Lillehammer to started a dentist practice and promote his recovery. At this time he was the