"The puzzle of course is where 60 seconda in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour came from."
Babylon, I understand.
Incidentally, the way I heard it, Mr Farenheit used salt/ice as zero, and the temperature of his dog's arse as 100. Then he found pure water froze at 32 and, extending his straight line towards the hot, found that water boiled at 212.
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