The "reverse" Celsius scale

Did you that in 1742, the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), created the a temperature scale which was the REVERSE of what we call today the "Celsius" scale:
indeed, 0 represented the boiling point of water and 100 its freezing point!

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