That's a nice story, but his methods were unscientific. Nobody else can replicate or calibrate a similar thermometer, which makes it useless as a scientific instrument.
The story I heard in one of my chem classes was that 0 was "an average winter's day in Vienna", Fahrenheit being Austrian, and 100 was his body temperature (he must have been running a fever that day, given that healathy human body temperature is 98.6 F). Given the fact that he's been dead for a century and a half and global warming has ensured that winter in Vienna now is not the same as winter in Vienna in the mid nineteenth century, we still can't replicate either of these reference points.
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