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Franz Karl Achard
(28 Apr 1753 - 20 Apr 1821)
German chemist and experimental physicist.
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Science Quotes by Franz Karl Achard (1)
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.
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