Good for you. I'm wondering, though, if your misspelling of Fahrenheit was deliberate (and possibly meant to be disparaging). Although his scale has been discarded (mostly) and would be inappropriate within SI, his pioneering work as a scientist still deserves recognition. The same is true of many other scientists whose names have been given to units that are no longer part of the modern metric system (e.g., Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, Marie Curie, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, ...).
Their absence from the current lexicon should not demote them to the status of chopped liver. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 12:58 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:29718] Temperatures > > >Hello USMA Listserv members! > >I would like to let you know that I am well on the path to >becoming illiterate with the temperature scale invented by Danny >Fareingheight! I am using degrees Celsius on a regular basis and >am displaying degrees Celsius on my family's didgital thermometer >(over the objections of my parents!) > >ANDERS CELSIUS ROCKS! > > >-----Thanks!----- > >Cole Kingsbury >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >---------------- >
