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University Of Basel Academy Of Science
2,249 wordsLeonhard Euler's father was Paul Euler. Paul Euler had studied theology at the University of Basel and had attended Jacob Bernoulli's lectures there. In fact Paul Euler and Johann Bernoulli had both lived in Jacob Bernoulli's house while undergraduates at Basel. Paul Euler became a Protestant minister and married Margaret Bruce, the daughter of another Protestant minister. Their son Leonhard Euler was born in Basel, but the family moved to Riehen when he was one year old and it was in Riehen, no...
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1,269 wordsBernard Bolzano was a philosopher and mathematician whose contributions were not truly recognized until long after his death. He is especially important in the fields of logic geometry and the theory or real numbers. Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano was born in Prague, Bohemia, (which is now part of the Czech Republic), on October 5, 1781 as the fourth child out of twelve children. His mother was a German-speaking native of Prague, his father a dealer in small wares from Northern Italy ...
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Bach And Handel Beethoven
936 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel were two of the most important composers of the Baroque Period. Compare and contrast their lives and sacred musical works studied in class. Johann Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel are two of the most important composers of the Baroque period. Born only one month apart both in Germany. Handel lived nine more years than Bach. Coming from the same period the two composers have many qualities that are alike and some unlike. These qualities ...
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Group Of Men Barbed Wire
2,503 wordsA shell struck near the trench, forcing debris towards Robert. He awoke with start. His friend laughed at Robert's startled expression. "Are you still not used to that?" Dougie said wryly, knowing that no-one could ever overcome the shock of the trenches. "Here, I saved you these. " He handed over some biscuits. Robert thanked him. He tried to break the biscuit to see how hard it was. He found it very difficult to snap so he wet it and smashed it to small pieces with a brick. He had learnt the h...
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2,504 words... duties and was exhausted. He shivered under his layers of blankets. "Come on Rob, " he whispered to himself, "get to sleep. If you " re not alert tomorrow, you know what will happen to you. " And he did know. He knew all too well for a man who was barely twenty. He had seen what happened to those who lost their vigilance and he just could not allow himself to be one of them, for Imogen's sake. He carefully placed his photograph of his wife in a small, metal box that he kept in his bag. He tr...
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Wolfgang Von Goethe Johann Wolfgang
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Johann Sebastian Bach One Of The Greatest
1,348 wordsJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 in the town of Thuringia, Germany where he was raised and spent most of his life. Due to a shortage of expenses, he was confined to a very limited geographical space, as was his career. This greatly affected his, in that his music was not as wide known as other composers of the time. On traveling he never went farther north than Hamburg or farther south than Carlsbad. To look back on the life of Bach many have referred to him as? one o...
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Johann Sebastian Instrumental Music
806 wordsRegarded as perhaps the greatest composer of all time, Bach was known during his lifetime primarily as an outstanding organ player and technician. The youngest of eight children born to musical parents, Johann Sebastian was destined to become a musician. While still young, he had mastered the organ and violin, and was also an excellent singer. At the age of ten, both of his parents died within a year of each other. Young Sebastian was fortunate to be taken in by an older brother, Johann Christop...
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Johann Bernoulli Royal Society
3,640 wordsGottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz was born on the July 1, 1646 in Leipzig, Germany and died on November 14, 1716 in Hanover, Germany. He was the son of Friedrich Leibnitz, a professor of moral philosophy at Leipzig. Friedrich Leibnitz was evidently a competent though not original scholar, who devoted his time to his offices and to his family as a pious, Christian father. His mother was Catharina Schmuck, the daughter of a lawyer and Friedrich's third wife. Friedrich died when Leibnitz was only six year...
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Calculating Machine Royal Society
874 wordsGottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig. His father was a Professor of Moral Philosophy and Vice Chairman of the faculty of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. His father died when he was six, so his mother raised him. When he was seven, Leibniz attended the Nicolai School in Leipzig. At the school he was taught Latin, but he also taught himself more advanced Latin and some Greek by the age of 12. In 1661, when Leibniz was fourteen he ...
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Sir Isaac Newton Albert Einstein
825 wordsThe The Physicists The Physicists The Physicists is a satiric play written by the Swiss author Friedrich D? rrenmatt about three physicists who are living in the private sanatorium Les Cerisiers headed by the last living member of an old regional aristocratic family, Miss Dr. h. c. Dr. med. Mathilde Von Zahnd. The first one thinks he is Sir Isaac Newton, but he is in reality Herbert Georg Beutler, the second one thinks he is Albert Einstein and his real name is Ernst Heinrich Ernesti. The third ...
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Moveable Type Printing Press Moveable Type Printing Gutenberg
276 wordsChoosing Johan Guttenberg Johann Gutenberg Choosing the man of the millennium is a big job. There are so many candidates to be evaluated, for instance, Martin Luther King Jr. , Christopher Columbus, and Charlemagne are among the few people to be considered. One other candidate to be considered was Johann Gutenberg. He was one of the most, if not the most, imperative men of that last millennium. A lot of other people obviously felt the same way I do about him and his inventions. He was chosen to ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach One Of The Greatest
269 wordsChris Kouffman February 11, 1997 Period 7 Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a musical composer of the late 17 th and early 18 th centuries. He was one of the greatest composers of all time. He was born in Eisenach, Thuringia, in 1685. He spent his life in music and was known for his ability in that subject. At age 15, Bach got his first job as a court musician at Weimar. There he became known as a great organist. In 1717, the Prince of Cothen invited Bach to become Kappelmeister in...
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Johann Sebastian Bach Bach Cantatas Music
657 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was born March 21, 1685, in Eisnach, East Germany. Unfortunately, Bach was declared an orphan at the young age of ten. He moved in with his oldest brother, Johann Christoph who lived in Ohrdruf. At age 15, he enrolled in Saint Michaels Church, where he sang in the choir. He stayed there for two years. Soon after he left the school, he became an organist at Saint Boniface Church, then at Saint Blasius Church. In 1717 he was employed as a court organist,...
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Johann Sebastian Bach March 21
523 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21 st l 685, the son of Johann Ambrosius, court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach and director of the musicians of the town of Eisenach in Thuringia. For many years, members of the Bach family throughout Thuringia had held positions such as organists, town instrumentalists, or Cantors, and the family name enjoyed a wide reputation for musical talent. Compared to most other major composers, Johann Sebastian Bach's life and career were confined to a very li...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart
2,138 words" The classical period produced more instrumental than vocal music, a wealth of serious and comic operas as well as vocal religious music also appeared during this time" (Ferris, 231). One of the best composer of this time was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In this paper I will go through his childhood, his friends and family, and of course his music. Enjoy! ! ! Child of the Enlightenment The world that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entered ceremoniously in 1756 was brimming in change. Historians ...
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Leonhard Euler Johann Bernoulli
704 wordsEuler Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler Euler made large bounds in modern analytic geometry and trigonometry. He made decisive and formative contributions to geometry, calculus and number theory. Born: 15 April 1707 in Basel, Switzerland Died: 18 Sept 1783 in St Petersburg, Russia Introduction Euler's father wanted his son to follow him into the church and sent him to the University of Basel to prepare for the ministry. However geometry soon became his favourite subject. Euler obtained his fathers c...
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Pope Leo X Diet Of Worms
1,160 wordsA thousand years is a long time. So how do you pick the most influential person of the last thousand years? Its practically impossible to do. But almost everyone will agree that one of the most influential characters in the millennium was Martin Luther, father of the protestant church. Luther was born November 10, 1483 in Eisleben, Thuringia (a province noted for its many musical talents, including Johann Sebastian Bach). Luther was brought up in the strict religious atmosphere of the roman cath...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart
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Archbishop Of Salzburg Leopold Mozart
3,855 wordsMozart was born on January 27 th, 1756. He was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. He had a sister named Maria Anna Mozart, who was also musically talented. Mozart was a young boy who showed talent from the beginning of his life. He never attended a proper school, which was a custom for children of that time. Instead of going to school, he was taught by his father who was a respectable man in Salzburg. His father held many professions such as concertmaster for the court orchestra of the Archb...
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