Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler (1751-1795)
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- Name (English)
- Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler
- Short name
- Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler
- Year of birth
- 1751
- Year of death
- 1795
- Short Description
- "He is best remembered as the author of a popular dictionary of physical sciences, Physikalisches Wörterbuch, published from 1787 in six volumes. Decades later, the dictionary was edited and re-issued in 11 volumes (1825–45); its editors being Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, Leopold Gmelin, Johann Caspar Horner, Carl Ludwig Littrow, Christian Heinrich Pfaff and Georg Wilhelm Muncke. In 1783 he published a German translation of Tiberius Cavallo´s A complete treatise on electricity as Vollständige Abhandlung der theoretischen und praktischen Lehre von der Electricität. In 1796 his translation of Fourcroy´s Philosophie chimique was published with the title Philosophie oder Grundwahrheiten der neuern Chemie." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.11.2019)
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- piz
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