Anders Celsius was a Swedish scientist born in 1701 and died in 1744. A specialist in astronomy and physics , Celsius supervised the development of the Uppsala Observatory and was part of an expedition to the Lapland region to analyze the flattening of the Earth's poles.
It should also be noted that he was a professor at the University of Uppsala and also stood out for publishing, in 1733, a collection of just over 300 observations of the northern lights.
An interesting curiosity about Anders Celsius is that there is a lunar crater named Celsius as a tribute to him.
Among Celsius 's many contributions to science , his contribution to the creation of a centigrade temperature scale stands out. The Swede proposed a scale that, as the heat increased, indicated a drop in degrees. On the other hand, if the heat decreased, the degrees increased. Years later, Jean-Pierre Christin and Carl von Linnaeus took Celsius 's precepts but decided to invert the scale.
Today, the Celsius scale is known as the one whose 0 is equivalent to 0.01 degrees below the so-called "triple point" (the point where the solid, liquid and gaseous states are in equilibrium) of water . The calorific intensity, at this point, is equal to that of the kelvin .
On the Celsius scale , 0 can be said to be the melting point of frozen water (ice). 100 degrees Celsius is the boiling point of water, always at normal pressure.
It is important to note that degrees Celsius are also called degrees centigrade . This means that 30 degrees Celsius is the same as 30 degrees Celsius .
The symbol for degrees Celsius is ºC . Therefore, it is possible to write “30 degrees Celsius” or “30 degrees centigrade” as “30 ºC” .
In addition to all of the above, we cannot overlook the fact that the word in question is also used to refer to a literary event. We are referring to Celsius 232, which is the Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Festival that takes place annually in Avilés (Asturias) and whose objective is to promote the most relevant novels of the aforementioned genres, both nationally and internationally.
Book presentations, talks, conferences, street activities and even more academic proposals are included in the programme of this festival, which is open to the public and has its headquarters at the Casa de la Cultura de Avilés, located in Plaza Domingo Acebal.
Within this literary event, it is worth highlighting the Kelvin 505 Awards, which have been given to works such as “The Three Deaths of Fermín Salvochea” by Jesús Cañadas; “The Fifth Season” by NK Jemisin; “The Tree of Lies” by Frances Hardinge and “The Second Revolution” by Costa Alcalá.
It should also be noted that this festival pays special tribute to the figure of the writer Mary Shelley, creator of “Frankestein”.