>>12153513The original scale made sense - 96 was mean human body temperature, 32 was the triple point temperature of water. This meant all you'd need to calibrate any temperature to this scale was your own body and some ice water (readily available for a sizable chunk of the year in parts of Europe at the time, and trivially available now), after which you can simply bisect the scale a few times to arrive at a base delineation for the scale which is accurate to a bit over half a degree on the Celsius scale.
The problem was people kept convincing Farenheit to change shit - make it a 10 scale, use this fucking brine as a calibration mark, use the boiling water to calibrate shit, etc etc until all of the elegance of the original model was completely lost.
