Delisle scale
Sign in to savetemperature scale invented by the French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
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- Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
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Joseph-Nicolas Delisle The Delisle scale is a temperature scale invented in 1732 by the French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768). The Delisle scale is notable as one of the few temperature scales that are inverted from the amount of thermal energy they measure; unlike most other temperature scales, higher measurements in degrees Delisle are colder, while lower measurements are warmer.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Delisle scale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.