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Anders Celsius ( November 27 , 1701 – April 25 , 1744 ) was a Swedish Astronomer . Celsius was born in Uppsala in Sweden . He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744 , but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany , Italy and France . At Nuremberg in 1733 he published a collection of 316 observations of the Aurora Borealis made by himself and others over the period 1716-1732. In Paris he advocated the measurement of an arc of the meridian in Lapland , and in 1736 took part in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy Of Sciences . Celsius was the founder of the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741 . He is best known for the Celsius Temperature scale, first proposed in a paper to the Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences in 1742 . He died of Tuberculosis in Uppsala . The Celsius Crater on the Moon is named for him. PUBLICATIONS
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