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Fw: [HM] Jacob Bernouilli's tomb
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From: Mary Krimmel
Message requiring your approval (74 lines) ------------------ My previous post asking about Bernoulli's tomb is now partly outdated and the first question answered, although not in the way I expected it to be. I had enquired earlier on the discussion site
Historia-Matematica Discussion Group hosted by Epigone at MathForum.

Mary Krimmel


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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 19:58:27 -0300
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From: Julio Gonzalez Cabillon <jgc@adinet.com.uy>
Subject: Re: [HM] Jacob Bernouilli's tomb

Dear Mary Krimmel,

Jakob's tombstone is in the M\"unster cathedral in his hometown Basel.
<http://www.officenet.co.jp/~urakawa/be/Bernoulli.jpg>

C.S.
IACOBUS BERNOULLI
MATHEMATICUS INCOMPARABILIS
ACAD. BASIL.
VLTRA XVIII ANNOS PROF.
ACADEM. ITEM REGIAE PARIS. ET BEROLIN.
SOCIUS
EDITIS LUCUBRAT.INLUSTRIS.
MORBO CHRONICO
MENTE AD EXTREMUM INTEGRA
ANNO SAL.MDCCV.D.XVI.AUGUSTI
AETATIS L.M.VII
EXTINCTUS
RESURRECT.PIOR.HIC PRAESTOLATUR
IUDITHA STUPANA
XX ANNOR.VXOR
CUM DUOBUS LIBERIS
MARITO ET PARENTI
EHEU DESIDERATISS.
H.M.P.


EADEM MUTATA RESURGO


You may also take a look at Louis Isely's "Epigraphes tumulaires de
mathematiciens", Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de
Neuch^atel, tome 27, 1899.

Regards, Julio

Keywords: Eadem mutata resurgo; logarithmic spiral, equiangular spiral
(spira mirabilis); Basel; (das Basler) M\"unster; Jakob Bernoulli I;
Judith Stupan.
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