Vermischte Schriften

aka Miscellaneous Writings

Waste Books

Author

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Language

German

Year

first published 1800-1806

Country

Germany

Genre

Short Prose

enlightenment

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "waste books" or "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of the tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.