Education
Uppsala University.
Botanist historian linguist priest theologian university professor
Uppsala University.
Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carolus Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicos, in 1745-1747. Carl Linnaeus in 1744 reversed the scale to create the centigrade scale, renamed in 1948 to the Celsius scale in use today.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]
Olof Celsius was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1739.