Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein
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Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein was a German-born medical doctor, physicist and engineer. From 1753 to the end of his life he was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he served as rector four times.
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Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein. Copper etching based on drawing by Paul Ipsen, 1781.
A Janvier map of Scandinavia from 1762. Kratzenstein had discovered that the coast of Norway was 150 km too far east on the maps then in use.
Kratzenstein, copper etching based by Jonas Haas, 1758.
Transit of Venus 1769 seen from Tahiti and Vardø.
Two free reeds used in a harmonium.Scientists born in the 1720s 6
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Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein was a German-born medical doctor, physicist and engineer. From 1753 to the end of his life he was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he served as rector four times. He is especially known for his investigations of the use of electricity in medicine and the first attempts at mechanical speech synthesis. As a teacher he wrote the first textbook on experimental physics in the united kingdom of Denmark-Norway.
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