![]() ![]() Heilbron, Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: a Study of Early Modern Physics (1979), 314. Pieter van Musschenbroek, in a Letter to Réamur (), in AS. “I’ve found out so much about electricity that I’ve reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain nothing.” Musschenbroek belonged to the tradition of Dutch thinkers who popularized the ontological argument of God’s design. In November 1734 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the French Academy of Sciences in the same year. Musschenbroek’s Elementa Physica (1726) played an important part in the transmission of Isaac Newton’s ideas in physics to Europe. In 1732 he also became professor in astrology. In 1729, Musschenbroek used the word “physics” which had never been used before. He provided the first approach to scientific study of electrical charge and its properties. In 1723, he left his posts in Duisburg and became professor at the University of Utrecht. In 1721, he also became professor of medicine. In the same year, he became professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of Duisburg. Pieter van Musschenbroek, Elementa Physicae conscripta in usus academicos, Neapoli 1751 He finished his study in philosophy in 1719. He also attended lectures by John Theophilus Desaguliers and Isaac Newton in London. He studied medicine at Leiden University and received his doctorate in 1715. Pieter van Musschenbroek attended Latin school until 1708, where he studied Greek, Latin, French, English, High German, Italian, and Spanish. As an instrument maker, Johannes van Musschenbroek made scientific instruments such as air pumps, microscopes, and telescopes. His father Johannes van Musschenbroek originated from a Flemish family who lived in the city of Leiden since circa 1600. Pieter van Musschenbroek was born in Leiden, Holland, Dutch Republic. Musschenbroek was also one of the first scientists ( 1729) to provide detailed descriptions of testing machines for tension, compression, and flexure testing. He performed pioneering work on the buckling of compressed struts. Musschenbroek is credited with the invention of the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar. On March 14, 1692, Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek was born. ![]()
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