Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS (; ; 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. Fahrenheit was born in Danzig/Gdańsk, a predominantly German-speaking Hanseatic city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, but lived most of his life in the Dutch Republic (1701–1736) and was one of the notable figures in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. A pioneer of exact thermometry, he helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer (first practical, accurate thermometer) and Fahrenheit scale (first standardized
Gabriel Daniel accuracy, Daniel had the advantage of consulting valuable original sources. His "Histoire de la milice française", etc. (1721) is superior to his "Histoire de France". Daniel also wrote a reply to Pascal's "Provincial Letters", entitled "Entretiens de Cleanthe et d'Eudoxe sur les lettres provinciales" (1694); two treatises on Descartes' theory as to the intelligence of the lower animals, and other works. Gabriel Daniel Gabriel Daniel (8 February 1649 – 23 June 1728) was a French Jesuit historian. Born in Rouen, he was educated by the Jesuits, entered the order at the age of eighteen, and became superior at Paris. He