Who invented the degrees?

Question

You know like degrees in angles not for weather though

Answer 1

Art girl has it only the persian astronomers were called the Magi the ones metioned in the Bible. The King of Kings (Darius the great) used them. No one person invented them.

Answer 2

The ancient Persians, probably. They chose 360 degrees to make a full circle not because of its similarity to the number of days in the year, but because their number system was based on 60, because it could be divided by so many other numbers (factors), unlike our 10.

From them we have 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. Factors of 60 are 1,2,3, 4, 5, 6 ... well you can finish working that out. Factors of 10 are a mere 2 and 5. 12 is more useful to us, and 12 x5 = 60.

There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in a degree, and 60x6 (360) degrees in a full circle.

Answer 3

The number 360 as the number of 'degrees' (or minimal/practical sub-arcs) in a circle, and hence the unit of a degree as a sub-arc of 1/360 of the circle, was probably adopted because it approximates the number of days in a year. Ancient astronomers noticed that the stars in the sky, which circle the celestial pole every day, seem to advance in that circle by approximately one-360th of a circle, i.e. one degree, each day. Primitive calendars, such as the Persian Calendar used 360 days for a year. Its application to measuring angles in geometry can possibly be traced to Thales who popularized geometry among the Greeks and lived in Anatolia (modern western Turkey) among people who had dealings with Egypt and Babylon.

Answer 4

The number 360 as the number of 'degrees' (or minimal/practical sub-arcs) in a circle, and hence the unit of a degree as a sub-arc of 1/360 of the circle, was probably adopted because it approximates the number of days in a year. Ancient astronomers noticed that the stars in the sky, which circle the celestial pole every day, seem to advance in that circle by approximately one-360th of a circle, i.e. one degree, each day. Primitive calendars, such as the Persian Calendar used 360 days for a year. Its application to measuring angles in geometry can possibly be traced to Thales who popularized geometry among the Greeks and lived in Anatolia (modern western Turkey) among people who had dealings with Egypt and Babylon.

Answer 5

Early History
The first thermometers were called thermoscopes and while several inventors invented a version of the thermoscope at the same time, Italian inventor Santorio Santorio was the first inventor to put a numerical scale on the instrument. Galileo Galilei invented a rudimentary water thermometer in 1593 which, for the first time, allowed temperature variations to be measured. In 1714, Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, the modern thermometer.

Thermometer
At the start of the seventeenth century there was no way to quantify heat.
Santorio Santorio
Santorio invented several instruments, a wind gauge, a water current meter, the "pulsilogium," and a thermoscope, a precursor to the thermometer. Santorio was the first to apply a numerical scale to his thermoscope, which later evolved into the thermometer.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was the German physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer in 1709, and the mercury thermometer in 1714. In 1724, he introduced the temperature scale that bears his name - Fahrenheit Scale.

Anders Celsius
The Celsius temperature scale is also referred to as the "centigrade" scale. Centigrade means "consisting of or divided into 100 degrees". The Celsius scale, invented by Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744), has 100 degrees between the freezing point (0 C) and boiling point (100 C) of pure water at sea level air pressure. The term "Celsius" was adopted in 1948 by an international conference on weights and measures.

Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1701, where he succeeded his father as professor of astronomy in 1730. It was there that he built Sweden's first observatory in 1741, the Uppsala Observatory, where he was appointed director. He devised the centigrade scale or "Celsius scale" of temperature in 1742. He was also noted for his promotion of the Gregorian calendar, and his observations of the aurora borealis. In 1733, his collection of 316 observations of the aurora borealis was published and in 1737 he took part in the French expedition sent to measure one degree of meridian in the polar regions. In 1741, he directed the building of Sweden's first observatory.

One of the major questions of that time was the shape of the Earth. Isaac Newton had proposed that the Earth was not completely spherical, but rather flattened at the poles. Cartographic measuring in France suggested that it was the other way around - the Earth was elongated at the poles. In 1735, one expedition sailed to Ecuador in South America, and another expedition traveled to Northern Sweden. Celsius was the only professional astronomer on that expedition. Their measurements seemed to indicate that the Earth actually was flattened at the poles.

Celsius was not only an inventor and astronomer, but also a physicist. He and an assistant discovered that the aurora borealis had an influence on compass needles. However, the thing that made him famous is his temperature scale, which he based on the boiling and melting points of water. This scale, an inverted form of Celsius' original design, was adopted as the standard and is used in almost all scientific work.

Anders Celsius died in 1744, at the age of 42. He had started many other research projects, but finished few of them. Among his papers was a draft of a science fiction novel, situated partly on the star Sirius.

Anders Celsius
Super scientist biography of Anders Celsius.

Lord William Thomson Kelvin
Lord Kelvin took the whole process one step further with his invention of the Kelvin Scale in 1848. The Kelvin Scale measures the ultimate extremes of hot and cold. Kelvin developed the idea of absolute temperature, what is called the "Second Law of Thermodynamics", and developed the dynamical theory of heat.

Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, Lord Kelvin of Scotland (1824 - 1907) studied at Cambridge University, was a champion rower, and later became a Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. Among his other achievements was the 1852 discovery of the "Joule-Thomson Effect" of gases and his work on the first transatlantic telegraph cable (for which he was knighted), and his inventing of the mirror galvanometer used in cable signaling, the siphon recorder, the mechanical tide predictor, an improved ship's compass.

Answer 6

Well since every means of measurement used in it is Imperial and this country gave the world standard time and maps to navigate, I would guess the U.K. did.
Certainly the Greeks played a major part in the basics, but electricity existed for years before the light bulb.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_%28angle%29

Hippias of Elis (c.420 BC) : Greek mathematician best known for his description of the quadratix, a curve which allows an angle to be divided into any given ratio and thus provides a method for the trisection of an angle.
http://www.mathsisfun.com/wiki/Mathematicians

Answer 8

It's gonna be someone like Euclid or Pythagoras or someone like that. A Google search will reveal all I'm sure.

Answer 9

The ancients did. Some say the Eygptians others say the Arabs. Others say The Greeks.

Truth is no one knows, nobody knows.

Answer 10

diana ross , invented 3 of them