Editing Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (section)

===Later life and controversy ===
Fahrenheit spent the remainder of his life in Amsterdam. From 1718 onward, he lectured in chemistry in Amsterdam. He visited England in 1724 and was elected into the [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] on May 5.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=((text)%3D'fahrenheit') |title=The Royal Society Archive catalogue |access-date=26 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127053001/http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=((text)%3D'fahrenheit') |archive-date=27 November 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In that year, he published five papers in [[Latin]] for the Royal Society's scientific journal, ''[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society|Philosophical Transactions]]'', on various topics. In his second paper, "Experimenta et observationes de congelatione aquæ in vacuo factæ", he provides a description of his thermometers and the reference points he used for calibrating them. For two centuries, this document was the only description of Fahrenheit's process for making thermometers.<ref name="middleton" />{{rp|75}} In the 20th century, [[Ernst Cohen]] uncovered correspondences between Fahrenheit and [[Herman Boerhaave]] which cast considerable doubt on the veracity of Fahrenheit's article explaining the reference points for his scale and that, in fact, Fahrenheit's scale was largely derived from Rømer's scale. In his book, ''The History of the Thermometer and Its Use in Meteorology'', W. E. Knowles Middleton writes,
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|text=I believe that much of the confusion [over the Fahrenheit scale] has resulted from believing that [Fahrenheit] meant exactly what he said [in his Royal Society article], and discounting the natural tendency of an instrumentmaker to wish to conceal his processes, or at least to obfuscate his readers.<ref name="middleton" />{{rp|75}}
|author=W. E. Knowles Middleton
|title=''The History of the Thermometer and Its Use in Meteorology''
}}

From August 1736 to his death, Fahrenheit stayed in the house of Johannes Frisleven at [[Het Plein|Plein Square]] in The Hague in connection with an application for a [[patent]] at the [[States of Holland and West Friesland]]. At the beginning of September, he became ill and on the 7th his health had deteriorated to such an extent that he had [[notary]] Willem Ruijsbroek come to draw up his will. On the 11th, the notary came by again to make some changes. Five days after that, Fahrenheit died at the age of fifty. Four days later, he received the fourth-class funeral of one who is classified as [[destitute]], in the [[Kloosterkerk, The Hague|Kloosterkerk]] in The Hague (the Cloister or Monastery Church).<ref name="star">Star, Pieter van der: [https://books.google.com/books?id=1-z0asXiafcC&pg=PA13 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit's Letters to Leibniz and Boerhaave]. Rodopi Publishers, Amsterdam 1983.</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.kloosterkerk.nl/bezoek-de-kerk/en/ | title= The Kloosterkerk | publisher=The Kloosterkerk | access-date=16 September 2017}}</ref><ref>Zuiden, D.S. van: [https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB16:001954001:00183 Het Testament en de Inboedel van Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit], in: "Oud-Holland", pp. 123-130, Binger Publishers, Amsterdam 1913</ref>[[File:House where Gabriel Fahrenheit died in 1736, at Plein square, The Hague; img01.jpg|thumb|upright|House where Gabriel Fahrenheit died in 1736, at Plein square, The Hague]]