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Die Werke von Daniel Bernoulli

Band 1: Medizin und Physiologie, Mathematische Jugendschriften, Positionsastronomie

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Authors:
  1. Daniel Bernoulli

    1. Basel, Switzerland

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Editors:
  1. David Speiser

    1. Arlesheim, Switzerland

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  2. Volker Zimmermann
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  3. Umberto Bottazzini

    1. Università di Palermo Dipto. Matematica ed Applicazioni, Palermo, Italy

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  4. Mario Howald-Haller
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Keywords

  • Bernoulli, Daniel
  • Mathematik
  • Medizin
  • Physiologie
  • Positionsastronomie

About this book

The works from Daniel Bernoulli's youth contained in this first volume of his Collected Works bear witness above all of his versatility; they deal with subjects as different as physiology, formal logic, mathematical analysis, hydrodynamics and positional astronomy. Daniel Bernoulli's contacts with Italian scientists gave rise to several controversies. The present volume documents both sides in each of these debates, which culminated with the publication of Bernoulli's first book Exercitationes mathe- maticae in 1724. The discussions with the renowned mathematician Jacopo Riccati on second-order differential equations and on the Newtonian theory of the out-flow of fluids from vessels deserve particular interest. A third group of texts goes back to the time Bernoulli spent at the newly- founded Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, where he had been appointed in 1725. There he worked out two more contributions to physiological research - on muscle movement and on the blind spot in the human eye - as well as his only paper in positional astronomy. This last work - suggested by a prize question of the Paris Académie des Sciences - became the occasion for a vehement conflict; the present volume documents these "Zänkereien" (squabbles) and also reproduces three competing treatises. To complete the documentation of Daniel Bernoulli's work on physiology, the volume also includes his academic ceremonial speech De Vita of 1737, where he sketches for the first time the circulation of the work done by the human heart, and its elaboration by Bernoulli's student Daniel Passavant.

Authors, Editors and Affiliations

  • Arlesheim, Switzerland

    David Speiser

  • Università di Palermo Dipto. Matematica ed Applicazioni, Palermo, Italy

    Umberto Bottazzini

  • Basel, Switzerland

    Daniel Bernoulli

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Die Werke von Daniel Bernoulli

  • Book Subtitle: Band 1: Medizin und Physiologie, Mathematische Jugendschriften, Positionsastronomie

  • Authors: Daniel Bernoulli

  • Editors: David Speiser, Volker Zimmermann, Umberto Bottazzini, Mario Howald-Haller

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-5272-1Published: 01 November 1996

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 501

  • Number of Illustrations: 82 b/w illustrations

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