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Franz Karl Achard

(28 Apr 1753 - 20 Apr 1821)

German chemist, experimental physicist and experimental physicist.

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Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

— Franz Karl Achard

Quoted in J. L. Heilbron, Electricity in the 17th and 18th centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics (1979), 74.

See also: | Mathematics (217) | Philosophy (70) | Physics (61)

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