I made a good attempt at spelling the name correctly although I have a hard time spelling complicated names, as in the case of Daniel Fahrenheit, without looking the name up.
Metric Rocks! -- -----Thanks!----- Cole Kingsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------- > 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] > > > >---------------- > > >
