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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.
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. Read More.
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.
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.
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. Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olof Celsius has received more than 38,316 page views.
Doctor Olof Celsius (1670-1756) created one of the oldest herbarium collections at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, his Flora Upplandica from 1730. Dr. Olof Celsius was the uncle of Professor Anders Celsius (1701~1744), the man who developed the modern system of temperature measurement.
Celsius started to collect plants in Uppland already in the 1690's and he called his plant collection "Flora Uplandica". In 1730 the collecting process was finished and the plants assembled in six leather-bound volumes containing 711 specimens. Among these specimens there are several that Celsius and Linnaeus collected jointly, and some are ...
