Nicolaas Kruik was a Dutch land surveyor, cartographer, and weatherman. He is remembered most today for the Museum De Cruquius bearing his name. He was a perfectionist who liked to measure things and he calculated temperature measurements in Fahrenheit from 1706 to 1734. His historical calculations are still used today by the KNMI, the Dutch meteorological institute. He not only measured weather changes in wind speed, rainfall, air pressure, temperature, and humidity, … Wikipedia
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