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||Johannes (or Jean) Sturm dies ... educator, influential in the design of the Gymnasium system of secondary education.
||Johannes Sturm dies ... educator, influential in the design of the Gymnasium system of secondary education. Pic.


||1593: Valentin Naboth dies ... mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Book cover.
||1593: Valentin Naboth dies ... mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Pic: book cover.


||1621: Rudolph Goclenius the Younger dies ... physician and professor of physics, medicine and mathematics at the Philipps University of Marburg. He was the oldest son of Rudolph Goclenius, who was also professor of rhetoric, logic and ethics at Marburg. As a physician he worked on cures against the plague. He became famous for his miraculous cure with the "weapon salve" or Powder of Sympathy. Based on the hermetic concepts of Paracelsus he published 1608 the proposition of a "magnetic" cure to heal wounds: the application of the salve on the weapon should heal the wounds afflicted by the weapon. This concept was brought to England by the alchemist Robert Fludd. A famous proponent was Sir Kenelm Digby. Synchronising the effects of the powder (which apparently caused a noticeable effect on the patient when applied) was actually suggested in the leaflet Curious Enquiries in 1687 as a means of solving the longitude problem. Pic.
||1621: Rudolph Goclenius the Younger dies ... physician and professor of physics, medicine and mathematics at the Philipps University of Marburg. He was the oldest son of Rudolph Goclenius, who was also professor of rhetoric, logic and ethics at Marburg. As a physician he worked on cures against the plague. He became famous for his miraculous cure with the "weapon salve" or Powder of Sympathy. Based on the hermetic concepts of Paracelsus he published 1608 the proposition of a "magnetic" cure to heal wounds: the application of the salve on the weapon should heal the wounds afflicted by the weapon. This concept was brought to England by the alchemist Robert Fludd. A famous proponent was Sir Kenelm Digby. Synchronising the effects of the powder (which apparently caused a noticeable effect on the patient when applied) was actually suggested in the leaflet Curious Enquiries in 1687 as a means of solving the longitude problem. Pic.


||1703: Robert Hooke dies ... natural philosopher, architect and polymath.
||1703: Robert Hooke dies ... natural philosopher, architect and polymath. Pic.


||1751: Pierre Prévost born ... philosopher and physicist. In 1791 he explained Pictet's experiment by arguing that all bodies radiate heat, no matter how hot or cold they are. Pic.
||1751: Pierre Prévost born ... philosopher and physicist. In 1791 he explained Pictet's experiment by arguing that all bodies radiate heat, no matter how hot or cold they are. Pic.

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