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This is the Conversation Forum for Temperature Scales << < cold > Boiling <---> Freezing >> Subject: Reaumer Posted Jun 6, 2003 by Gladly, the cross-eyed bear   Posting 1 Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumer was a contemporary of Celsius and developed a scale of temperature with 0 as the triple point of water and 80 as the boiling point. I'm not sure why. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Reaumer Posted Jun 8, 2003 by Bellman This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 Good to hear of the old boy again but wasn't it Réaumur? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Reaumer Posted Jun 9, 2003 by Gladly, the cross-eyed bear This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 You are absolutely correct, (plus there probably should be a couple in Réné) but I couldn’t work out how to get the accent. (I can now). Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Reaumer Posted Jun 10, 2003 by Whisky This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 I seem to remember having a similar conversation in Peer Review - I decided to leave this particular scale out of the entry just because it was no-longer used (Ok, I'll be honest, if I'd included this scale I'd have had to research the other 20 or 30 odd scales that have been used over the last couple of hundred years ) Conversation list Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click on the relevant button to alert our Moderation Team. Conversation list

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