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The Polish city of Gdańsk, of the then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also born there at the time. [1]
> He defined 0 degrees as the coldest measurement, 100 the hottest measurement.
Nope. It was neither about the temperatures in Gdańsk, nor about the temperature of his wife, btw. ;) [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
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The Polish city of Gdańsk, of the then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also born there at the time. [1]
> He defined 0 degrees as the coldest measurement, 100 the hottest measurement.
Nope. It was neither about the temperatures in Gdańsk, nor about the temperature of his wife, btw. ;) [2]