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Jakob Hermann

Born: 16 July 1678 in Basel, Switzerland
Died: 11 July 1733 in Basel, Switzerland

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Jakob Hermann worked in mechanics and studied the 'inverse problem' where one has to determine the orbit from a knowledge of the law of force. He proposed the term 'phoronomie' in 1716 for the topic which was sometimes called 'rational mechanics' and now called 'theoretical mechanics'.

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Rice University, USA

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. V I Lysenko, Die geometrischen Arbeiten von Jakob Hermann, Istoriko-matematicheskie issledovaniya 17 (1966), 299-307. 
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