Johann Sturm

Johann Christoph Sturm ( born November 3, 1635 Hilpoltstein ( Middle Franconia ), † December 26, 1703 in Altdorf ) was a German astronomer and mathematician.

Life

Johann Christoph Sturm was the son of Johann Eucharius storm and Gertraud, nee Bock. From 1646 he was a student at the Latin school in White Castle in Bavaria and in 1653 as a pupil of the theologian Daniel Wülfer ( professor of logic, metaphysics and physics ) in Nuremberg. From 1656 to 1662 he studied mathematics, physics and theology in Jena, in the meantime a year in Leiden.

After a brief teaching career in Nuremberg storm was in 1664 a pastor in Deiningen (near Nördlingen ). In 1669 he became professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Altdorf, a position which he held until his death. During this time he was repeatedly dean of the philosophical faculty. He was married three times and had nine surviving children, including the architectural theorist Leonhard Christoph Sturm ( 1669-1719 ). In December 1703 John died storm to the effects of a stroke.

Importance

Storm was considered a particularly gifted teacher of natural sciences, his students not funneled shouldered dry book knowledge, but the subject matter instilled in an understandable way. He represented neither the ( old-fashioned ) school after Aristotle nor the (extremely modern ) direction of the Cartesians, but a hybrid. Latin terminology of the natural sciences were Germanized pioneered by storm. He is also regarded as the founder of importance to the early Enlightenment eclectic philosophy.

By Christoph Storm Street, the main shopping street bears in downtown city of his birth Hilpoltstein his name.

Writings (selection )

  • Aristotle 's mathematician. 1660
  • Universals euclidea. The Hague 1661
  • The incomparable ArchiMedis sand invoice. Nuremberg 1667
  • De Terrae Motibus. 1670 ( About the earthquake )
  • First part of the Collegium Experimentale, Sive Curiosum 1676
  • Sundial customer. 1681 ( textbook on sundials )
  • The great conjunction. 1683
  • Second part of the Collegium Experimentale, Sive Curiosum 1685
  • Physica electiva immersive hypothetica
  • Philosophia Eclectica. 1698
  • Mathesis juvenilis. 1699/1701 (mathematics textbook for the youth)
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