Talk:Newton scale

Litre
"'He found that a litre of linseed oil at the temperature of melting snow grew to 1.0725 L at the temperature of boiling water.'" For the sake of historical accuracy, could we please note the volume unit he actually used? The litre was defined about 100 years later&mdash;let alone its introduction in England. Crissov 22:47, 6 Feb 1894 (UTC)

Why 33?
Im not sure that this is entirely true but some say that newton was a Rosicrucian and a Freemason. One of the Freemasonrys legend is about a hidden pyramid wich will lead to "Foridden Knoweledge" note that on the Freemason rings it says "Everything is revealed in the 33rd degree" the 33rd degree is the highest rank within their order. The hidden pyrmaid is said to have some text that only reveals when it comes too 100 Celsius or 33 newton. Then it will reveal something that will lead us to the "Forbidden Knoweledge"

Although i read this in a book so im not even sure that the myths are correct but i find this interesting and exciting so i decided to post it here.

Bismut
Why the aberrant spelling of (what I assume is meant to be) bismuth? As far as I can tell, that has never been an acceptable spelling in English (it's not in the OED) although its spelt that way in several European languages. SpinningSpark 18:42, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

°N
Is this symbol a wikipedism or is it actually attested? Urhixidur (talk) 17:24, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Second Defined Temperature
The article claims that the Newton scale "has no single second reference point", but the Grigull reference states "Newton's scale has two defining fixed-points: the ice-point, where the Newton temperature tN = 0°N, and the temperature of the human body, where tN = 12°N". Pulu (talk) 20:42, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Listed Temperatures have fractions?
It looks to me like some of the values in the table are not what Newton reported. The origional table can be found here. For instance, what is listed in the table as 40°N looks like it was originally written as 40 4/5 °N. Similarly for 14°N, 20°N, and 28°N. Pulu (talk) 21:04, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

This article is very misleading in my opinion
The scale that this article is describing is incredibly unknown to the majority of people. When the name "Newton scale" is brought up, people think of a fish scale that measures the weight acting on an object. It seems odd that this page is talking about temperature and not force (which is what a newton scale measures). — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarkParker1221 (talk • contribs) 00:05, 13 June 2023 (UTC)