• Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep which Bernoulli which had passed through several art dealers to end up in the USA after Bernoulli had sold it. The case has been...
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    Invites Euler to Return to St. Petersburg." in Leonhard Euler and the Bernoullis (AK Peters/CRC Press, 2009) pp. 276–283. Robert Zaretsky, Catherine and...
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    of a parabola is still known as Tschirnhausen cubic. In 1696, Johann Bernoulli posed the problem of the brachistochrone to the readers of Acta Eruditorum...
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  • Dollfus, sister of Jean-Henri Dollfus fils and great-granddaughter of Jean Bernoulli. ¦ +→ Jean Koechlin (1780–1862), industrialist in Mulhouse, later in Guebwiller...
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  • class, this "Règlement relativement à l'introduction de l'égalité des familles patriciennes et de leurs titulatures" (17 and 18 July 1782) is official...
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    mathematician and was discussed in the correspondence between Leibniz and Bernoulli concerning the use of probabilities. Ever since the Middle Ages, a life...
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    to study at the University of Basel, where he was a student of Daniel Bernoulli. He completed his studies in 1762, and journeyed to France and England...
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    method for controlling smallpox by transferring cowpox. In 1760, Daniel Bernoulli had already shown that, despite the risks, the earlier practice of variola...
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  • Retrieved 15 November 2021. In 1953, he sued Swiss art dealer Christoph Bernoulli, who had bought the Pissarro work. A Swiss judge dismissed the suit, saying...
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    knowledge brought him next to Basel in 1760, where he studied with Daniel Bernoulli, and in 1765 to England and France, where he was inspired by astronomers...
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