Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today he is remembered for his notebooks published posthumously, which he himself called "waste books", using the English bookkeeping term. Lichtenberg is the inventor of the German "Aphorismus". Wikipedia
German physicits, mathematician, astromoner, and satirical writer, best-known for his aphorisms he collected in his notebooks (waste books). Lichtenberg has been admired by such writers and philosophers as Goethe, Nietzsche, Schopenhaeur, Tolstoy, and Wi www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lichten.htm
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. www.geocities.com/neveyaakov/electro_science/lichtenberg....
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We may use Lichtenbergs writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden. www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/may02/lichtenberg.htm
Lichtenberg (1742--1799) was a competent but entirely undistinguished physicist at Gttingen, back before Gttingen was the world's center for mathematics and physics. cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/lichtenberg/
