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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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  • She completed a thesis on the philosopher Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799) and “came out crowned with the title ‘doctor of philosophy’” in 1910, as noted in her diary.

    Havvah Shapiro. 2009

  • Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: “A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.”

    Thought for a Thursday: Is It Really “Entertainment” That Needs Defending? 2009

  • They are named after the German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who originally discovered and studied them.

    Lichtenberg Figures 2007

  • They are named after the German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who originally discovered and studied them.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Besides jurisprudence, Wilhelm studied classical philology with Christian Gottlieb Heyne, natural science with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (who counted him “among the brightest intellects” he had ever met), and immersed himself deeply in the study of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

    Wilhelm von Humboldt Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt 2007

  • Bolaño also named, in his last interview, the aphorisms of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg in a short list of books that significantly marked his life.

    Critical Mass 2009

  • Named after German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, the effect is responsible for the creation of a fractal pattern as a stored electrical charge is released.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • Aphorisms and Letters by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, translated and edited by Franz Mautner, by Henry Hatfield

    Lichtenberg: Body Language & A Dream Hodgart, Matthew 1970

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  • ruzuzu commented on the word Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a well-known German physicist and satirist in the 18-th century. Honoured as an extraordinary professor of physics at the University of Göttingen, he was known to be one of the first scientists to introduce experiments with apparatus in their lectures.

    He also maintained relations with other great German figures of the era such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Immanuel Kant. Legendary mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss is known to have sat on Lichtenberg’s lectures. He is also well known for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns which came to be known as Lichtenberg figures.

    -- From "How You Really Use Mathematics To Define Paper Size" (https://www.cantorsparadise.com/how-you-really-use-mathematics-to-define-paper-size-c2928ba551ec)

    February 9, 2022