Celsius Made His Thermometer Upside Down

Celsius never devised nor used the scale that now bears his name. Veritasium is now on Patreon: http://patreon.com/veritasium Special thanks to Michael Stevens of Vsauce! http://youtube.com/vsauce1 More info about Celsius and temperature scales: http://wke.lt/w/s/2I6Nu References for this video: A History of the Thermometer and its uses in Meteorology by W. E. Knowles Middleton Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold by Tom Shachtman The Science of Measurement, A Historical Survey by Herbert Arthur Klein Lehrbuch der Chemie by Jöns Jakob Berzelius Special Thanks to the Uppsala University Museum I filmed this in Uppsala in the summer of 2012! So I ve been thinking about this idea for a very long time. I m glad to finally have it out there in the world.