If you think about Scientist, what is the name that comes to your mind? Is it Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, or Charles Darwin? Not me, I think about Anders Celsius. The reason why is because of his greatest invention, which was the Celsius thermometer. Anders had other great inventions and observations also, like the observations of the aurora borealis. He also built the Uppsala Observatory. Anders Celsius was a great inventor and will be remembered as one of the best scientist in the world. He was born on November 27, 1701 in Uppsala, Sweden. According to Tekniska Museet from the National Museum of Science and Technology, Anders lived an exciting childhood. He was able to solve problems out of a University book by the age of twelve. …show more content…
Two years later Celsius started a “grand tour”, lasting for four years. During this time, Anders visited mostly all famous scientist. He worked with many of the leading 18th century astronomers. While in Paris, he worked with astronomer Pierre Louis De Maupertuis, who supported Sir Isaac Newton’s theory about on the shape of the earth. When Anders finished his tour, he was invited to participate in the French astronomer Maupertuis’ famous expedition in 1736 to Tornea. The reason of the expedition was to compare the measurements on the length of a degree along a meridian, with the same expedition to Peru. Anders participation in the expedition made him famous, which played a big part in making Swedish authorities donate to the building of the observatory. Celsius observatory was open in 1741, stock with equipment from his expedition and the latest technology, which made the observatory the most modern instrumental building at the time. It was also Sweden’s first observatory. Celsius was also known for his promotion on the Gregorian calendar, but he wasn’t successful until almost ten years after his …show more content…
Celsius published catalogues of carefully determined magnitudes for a total of 300 stars using his own method. Anders Celsius began a series of observations using colored glass plates the record the earths’ magnitude of certain stars. It was the first attempt in history to use a tool other than the human eye. Anders made observations which led to book publishes about the brightness and position of stars. He became famous by becoming the first to posit a direct correlation between the Earths’s changing magnetic fields and the aurora Borealis. Which meant that the aurora phenomenon has magnetic causes through observing the inclination of a compass-needles and finding that the larger deviations correlated with stronger aurora activity. Celsius published most of his work in the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala. He also presided about twenty dissertations in astronomy where he was the main author. His most popular book is the Arithmetic’s for the Swedish Youth, it talked about the spirit of his period, the
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Auroras have been emitting in our, and other planets’ skies as long as the Solar System has been in motion. In 1619 A.D., Galileo Galilei coined the term "aurora borealis" after Aurora, the Roman goddess of morning. He had the misconception that the auroras he saw were due to sunlight reflecting from the atmosphere. (Angelopoulos, 2008). In 1741, Hiorter and Celsius noted that the polar aurora is accompanied by a disturbance of the magnetic needle. In 1820, Hans Christian Oersted discovered electromagnetism. André-Marie Ampére deduced that magnetism is basically the force between electric currents. In 1851, Samuel Schwabe, a German amateur astronomer, announced the discovery of the 11-year sunspot cycle, and in 1859, Richard Carrington in England observed a violent and rapid eruption near a sunspot; 17 hours later a large magnetic storm began. In 1900-3, Kristian Birkeland experiments with beams of electrons aimed at a magnetized sphere ("terrella") in a vacuum chamber. The electrons hit near the magnetic poles, leading him to propose that the polar aurora is created by electron beams from the Sun. Birkeland also observes magnetic disturbances associated with the aurora, suggesting to him that localized "polar magnetic storms" exist in the auroral zone. In 1958, Eugene Parker (Chicago) proposes the theory of the solar wind. 1981, High resolution images are obtained by Lou Frank's group in Iowa of the entire auroral zone, using the Dynamics Explorer satellite. (Stern & Peredo, 2005) This is the major timeline of how auroras came to be discovered and understood.
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The expedition was to Lapland (northern part of Sweden). In 1744 Newton's theory about the flattening of the earth at its poles was confirmed after all the measurements had been taken.Even though the expedition only lasted a year Celsius got many great measures. After the expedition Anders Celsius returned home to Uppsala,Sweden.
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