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Olof Celsius (the elder) (19 July 1670 – 24 June 1756) was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman. He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicon, in 1745–47. Celsius was also a prominent runologist.
Olof Celsius. Swedish scientist. Learn about this topic in these articles: influence on Linnaeus. In Carolus Linnaeus: Early life and travels. …lectures; however, the university professor Olof Celsius provided Linnaeus access to his library. From 1730 to 1732 he was able to subsidize himself by teaching botany in the university garden of Uppsala.
Olof Celsius the Younger (15 December 1716 – 15 February 1794) was a Swedish civil servant, church official, politician and historian. He was professor of history at Uppsala University from 1747, bishop of the Diocese of Lund from 1777, and member of the Swedish Academy from 1786.
Dr. Olof Celsius was the uncle of Professor Anders Celsius (1701~1744), the man who developed the modern system of temperature measurement. Anders Celsius was primarily an astronomer, but had a wide range of interests. He was a mathematician, an astronomer and an avid scientist.
When Carl Linnaeus as a young student visited the botanical garden in Uppsala (Rudbeck's garden) in the spring of 1729, he met Olof Celsius (1670–1756), a clergyman with great interest in botany. Celsius had a considerable amount of collected plants and an important library, and he soon realized that he had met a very special person in ...
Olof Celsius (the elder) (19 July 1670 – 24 June 1756) was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman. He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus.
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From the scientific point of view the most important contribution to the modern temperature scale is due to Celsius because of his careful experiments on the fixed points. The direction of the scale comes in second place, and was hardly a great intellectual achievement. Olof Beckman. - Biography.
