At 18:33 -0500 02/02/28, kilopascal wrote: >What is meant by this: Danzig (Gdansk actuellement)? Is the >reference trying to imply the cities real name is Gdansk? Gdansk is >the Polish name and was not applied to the city until it came under >Polish jurisdiction and its German population was expelled in 1945.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born in 1686 in Danzig, then in North Germany, with a German nationality. He began his scientific work in this city, then moved to Holland where he spent the rest of his life. He died in the Hague in1736. Danzig is now in Poland and named Gdansk.
