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Originally posted by dashen
32 is a very old mystical number stemming from thousands of years ago, from the Hebrew and Pythagoreans. It represented the heart. 32 is the munber of the paths of the tarot, and more. Scottish rite masonry was really the first to kick it up a notch to 33 degrees, quite unfoundedly might I add.
Except Celsius has to deal with negative numbers more often. And the 0 to 60 scale involved fractions, also not good.
Originally posted by Cabaret Voltaire
I think this is why Celcius went with 0 to 100.
I think Celcius was deeply disturbed by this 32-96-98.6-212 issue and had to get rational about it all with a centigrade scale.
Originally posted by network dude
reply to post by JoshNorton
you silly masons don't know that the original 32 came from a masonic tradition of not letting more than 32 masons enter a meeting. A keg of beer holds 160 beers. No mason shall consume more than 5 beers at any one time, hence 5 X 32 = 160. I could go into way more detail, but I fear that I have already given more masonic secrets away than I should have.
Originally posted by Cabaret Voltaire
Somebody.
Talk to me about this.
This relation between 32 freezing, 96 human body, and 212 boiling is just arbitrary, yet mathematically significant? That is simply too much to fathom.
And 96 is nearly the scientifically observed 98.6 body temperature?
And Fahrenheit just picked 96 so it could be divided by 12 parts, and he ends up with the precise 32 + 180 = 212 condition?! Are you serious?!!
Also, is salt+ice really 32 degrees below freezing? What is the Universe telling us?
originally posted by: Cabaret Voltaire
reply to post by Moonsouljah
Royal Society. BINGO!
I've got the Robert Lomas book "Freemasonry And The Birth Of Modern Science" so this makes sense to me. It is obvious.