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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.
 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist, satirist and anglophile
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| born | * July 1, 1742, Oberramstadt, Germany | |
| died | † February 24, 1799, Göttingen, Germany | |
| function | scientist, satirist and anglophile | |
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| As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today, he is remembered for his notebooks published posthumously, which he himself called "waste books", using the English bookkeeping term, and for his discovery of the strange treelike patterns now called Lichtenberg figures. | |
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