Heinrich von Sanden

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Heinrich von Sanden (born July 28, 1672 in Königsberg , † August 10, 1728 ) was a German doctor and physicist.

Life

Sanden was born as the son of the court preacher Bernhard von Sanden . He attended the old town high school. At the University of Königsberg he studied rhetoric, history, philosophy, mathematics and medicine. In 1695 he traveled to Copenhagen to see the anatomist Caspar Bartholinum and then to Leiden, where he studied with Charles Drelincourt , Burcher de Volder, Govard Bidloo and Holtone. On his return in 1696 he received his doctorate in medicine. He then practiced as a doctor and taught medicine at the University of Königsberg. In 1704 he became a professor of physics. Sanden was one of the first to teach experimental physics in Prussia.

In 1713 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences .

Works

  • De ptyalismo (Königsberg, 1696)
  • De molis (Koenigsberg, 1697)
  • De corporibus elasticis (Königsberg, 1704)
  • De antliis pneumaticis (Königsberg, 1704)
  • De frigore anni 1709 (Königsberg, 1712)
  • Sylloge experimentorum, quibus demonstrationes physicae illustrantur (Königsberg, 1712)
  • De succino, electricorum principe (Königsberg, 1714)
  • De scripturis et picturis fenestrarum naturalibus (Königsberg, 1715)
  • Observatio de prolapsu uteri inversi ab excrescentia carneo-fungosa, in fundo ejus interno ex potu infusi crepitus lupi enata (Königsberg, 1722)

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personal data
SURNAME Sanden, Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1728