Joseph-Nicolas Delisle

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What Wikipedia says

Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (French: [ʒozɛf nikɔla dəlil]; 4 April 1688 – 11 September 1768) was a French astronomer and cartographer. Delisle is mostly known for the Delisle scale, a temperature scale he invented in 1732.

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