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 "National Review" stating that the film had done a "solid job" in answering Moore's arguments whilst Maitland McDonagh of "TV Guide" called the film a "shrill, repetitive screed". The production of "Celsius 41.11" was funded by the conservative political organization Citizens United. The organization's president, David Bossie, was surprised at the success of "Fahrenheit 9/11" both at the box office and in rallying support for the Democratic political position. "After seeing Moore's impact, I wanted to counterpunch", he said to the "LA Times" in 2004, adding that, "Documentaries have become a weapon of the left". "Celsius 41.11" took six weeks