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See also:AEPINUS, See also:FRANZ See also:ULRICH THEODOR (1724-1802) , See also:German natural philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Rostock in See also:Saxony on the 13th of See also:December 1724. He was descended from See also:John Aepinus (1499-1553), the first to adopt the See also:Greek See also:form (aiirecvbr) of the See also:family name Hugk or Huck, and a leading theologian and controversialist at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:Reformation. After studying See also:medicine for a time, Franz Aepinus devoted himself to the See also:physical and mathematical sciences, in which he soon gained such distinction that he was admitted a member of the See also:Berlin See also:academy of sciences. In 1757 he settled in St See also:Petersburg as member of the imperial academy of sciences and See also:professor of physics, and remained there till his retirement in 1798. The See also:rest of his See also:life was spent at Dorpat, where he died on the loth of See also:August 1802. He enjoyed the See also:special favourof the empress See also:Catherine II., who appointed him See also:tutor to her son See also:Paul, and endeavoured, without success, to establish normal See also:schools throughout the See also:empire under his direction. Aepinus is best known by his re-searches, theoretical and experimental, in See also:electricity and See also:magnetism, and his See also:principal See also:work, Tentamen Theoriae Electricitatis et Magnetismi, published at St Petersburg in 1759, was the first systematic and successful See also:attempt to apply mathematical reasoning to these subjects. He also published a See also:treatise, in 1761, De See also:distribution caloris per tellurem, and he was the author of See also:memoirs on different subjects in See also:astronomy, See also:mechanics, See also:optics and pure See also:mathematics, contained in the See also:journals of the learned See also:societies of St Petersburg and Berlin. His discussion of the effects of See also:parallax in the transit of a See also:planet over the See also:sun's disc excited See also:great See also:interest, having appeared (in 1764) between the See also:dates of the two transits of See also:Venus that took See also:place in the 18th See also:century.
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