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Pieter van Musschenbroek
(14 Mar 1692 - 19 Sep 1761)
Dutch physicist and mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Pieter van Musschenbroek (1 quote)
I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain nothing.
[Describing his experiments with the Leyden jar.]
[Describing his experiments with the Leyden jar.]
— Pieter van Musschenbroek
Letter to Réamur (20 Jan 1746), in AS. Proc. verb., LXV (1746), 6. Cited in J. L. Heilbron, Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: a Study of Early Modern Physics (1979), 314.
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- 14 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Musschenbroek's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
