"The Delisle scale (\u00B0D) is a temperature scale invented in 1732 by the French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688\u20131768). Delisle was the author of M\u00E9moires pour servir \u00E0 l'histoire et aux progr\u00E8s de l'Astronomie, de la G\u00E9ographie et de la Physique (1738)."@en .