Lichtenberg's Avertissement, a poster intended to deter the citizens of Göttingen, Germany, from attending the performance of Jacob Philadelphia in 1777, written by which German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile?
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Lichtenberg's Avertissement Lichtenberg's Avertissement, written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, is a poster intended to deter the citizens of Göttingen, Germany, from attending the performance of Jacob Philadelphia in 1777. The performance was supposed to be an exhibition of scientific experiments; however, Lichtenberg considered it to be a magic show. He was angered by the alleged deception and posted the following satire in order to persuade people to avoid the performance. As a result of the extravagant claims that were posted, Philadelphia left Göttingen without giving any exhibitions.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today, he is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called "Sudelbücher", a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of the strange tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
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Louis de Jaucourt Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt (] ; 16 September 1704 – 3 February 1779) was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the "Encyclopédie". He wrote about 18,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopaedia, all done voluntarily. In the generations after the "Encyclopédie"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s, mainly due to his aristocratic background, his legacy was largely overshadowed by the more bohemian Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others, but by the mid-20th century more scholarly attention was being paid to him.
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Solomon Steinheim Solomon Ludwig (Levy) Steinheim (pseudonym: "Abadjah Ben Amos"; 1789–1866) was a German physician, poet, and philosopher.
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George Engelmann bibliography This George Engelmann bibliography provides an overview of works written by the 19th century scientist George Engelmann. They appeared mostly in journals such as the "London Journal of Botany", the "Botanischen Zeitung", the "Boston Journal of Natural History", the "American Journal of Science and Arts", the "Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis", the "Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia", the "Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club", the "American Naturalist", and the "Botanical Gazette or the Gardeners' Chronicle".
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Antoine Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution; ] ; 26 August 17438 May 1794;) was a French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology. He is widely considered in popular literature as the "father of modern chemistry".
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John Pinkerton John Pinkerton (17 February 1758 – 10 March 1826) was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory.
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Johann Heinrich Lambert Johann Heinrich Lambert (] , "Jean-Henri Lambert" in French; 26 August 1728 – 25 September 1777) was a Swiss polymath who made important contributions to the subjects of mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy and map projections.
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William Jacob William Jacob (c. 1761 – 17 December 1851) was an English merchant, scientist, parliamentarian, public official and advocate for expanded British trade. In his later life he was a significant and effective advocate for the repeal of the Corn Laws.
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Isaac Baer Levinsohn Isaac Baer Levinsohn (Hebrew: יצחק בר לוינזון) (October 13, 1788 in Kremenetz – February 13, 1860 in Kremenetz) was a notable Russian-Hebrew scholar, satirist, writer and Haskalah leader. He was called "the Russian Mendelssohn". In his "Bet Yehudah" (1837), he formulated a philosophy and described Jewish contributions to civilization in an effort to promote Judeo-Christian understanding.
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Michael Hissmann Michael Hissmann (1752, Hermannstadt – 1784, Göttingen) was a German philosopher, a radical materialist who translated Condillac and Joseph Priestley into German.
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Sebastian Brant Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457 – 10 May 1521) was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire "Das Narrenschiff" ("The Ship of Fools").
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Aaron Bernstein Aaron David Bernstein (6 April 1812, Danzig12 February 1884, Berlin) was a German Jewish author, reformer and scientist.
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Henry Kater Henry Kater (16 April 1777 – 26 April 1835) was an English physicist of German descent.
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Johann Fischart Johann Baptist Fischart (c. 1545 – 1591) was a German satirist and publicist.
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Brevis commentarius de Islandia Brevis commentarius de Islandia (English: "Brief Commentary on Iceland") is a book in Latin written and published in Denmark in 1593 by the Icelandic scholar Arngrímur Jónsson. It is a "Defense of Iceland", in which he criticized the works of numerous authors who had written about the people and the country of Iceland. His main target was a poem by Gories Peerse, a merchant who had written an entertaining and somewhat slanderous poem about Icelandic geography and ethnography. Arngrímur also criticized substantial works such as the "Cosmographie" of the German scholar Sebastian Münster.
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Richard Laughton Richard Laughton (1670?–1723) was an English churchman and academic, now known as a natural philosopher and populariser of the ideas of Isaac Newton.
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Isaac Newton in popular culture Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, natural philosopher, theologian, alchemist and one of the most influential scientists in human history. His "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" is considered to be one of the most influential book in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics by describing universal gravitation and the three laws of motion. In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of the differential and integral calculus.
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Herwart von Hohenburg Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg (also "Hans Georg Hörwarth"; 1553–1622) was a Bavarian statesman and scholar, and a patron and correspondent of Johannes Kepler.
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Jacob Hübner Jacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the author of "Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge" (1796–1805), a founding work of entomology.
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Marc-Auguste Pictet Marc-Auguste Pictet (] ; July 23, 1752 – April 19, 1825) was a scientific journalist and an experimental natural philosopher (physicist, chemist, meteorologist, astronomer) from Geneva, Switzerland.
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Johann Heinrich Merck Johann Heinrich Merck (11 April 1741 – 27 June 1791), German author and critic, was born at Darmstadt, a few days after the death of his father, a chemist.