German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736). Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born on 24 May 1686 in what is now Poland. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit is remembered as a physicist, inventor and instrument maker, a citizen of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Notable works include “degree Fahrenheit”.
Before and after
- 21 March 1685Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1 October 1685Birth of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1686Founding of Greenfield
- from 1686 to 1700Third Russo-Turkish War
- 24 May 1686Birth of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
- 1687Publication of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- 5 July 1687Newton's laws of motion
- from 1688 to 1807Jacobitism
- from 1688 to 1815Second Hundred Years' War
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