Celsius

The Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–44) was arguably the world’s first true Earth scientist. In Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees , Ian Hembrow reveals what his extraordinary, but tragically short, life and career can teach us about our today and humanity’s tomorrow. Our modern understanding of many of the Earth’s most awe-inspiring phenomena owes much to a modest and quietly spoken, eighteenth-century Swedish astronomer, who died of tuberculosis aged just 42. From the Northern Lights