Michel Varro
Michel Varro (* around 1542 in Geneva ; † October 8, 1586 ibid) was a Geneva lawyer and physicist.
biography
Varro was the son of a businessman and studied law and mathematics in Geneva from 1559 and in Frankfurt an der Oder from 1563 . From 1568 he was a member of the Council of Geneva, from 1573 to 1576 State Secretary and in 1582 and 1586 Syndic of the City of Geneva. In 1581 he became a professor ( Scholarch ). He owned an estate and was a co-owner of an iron ore mine. On a trip to Paris in 1572 , he narrowly escaped the murder on Bartholomew Night . From 1573 to 1578 he was in Poland.
In his treatise De Motu tractatus , which appeared in Geneva in 1584 and which he wrote during his time in Poland, he was a forerunner of Galileo Galilei . For example, there is a treatment of free fall, and it assumes a proportionality of the speed of fall and the distance of fall, namely as a continuous ratio (that is, the speed changes continuously).
literature
- Michel Varro: De motu ( la ). Jacques Stoer, 1584.
- Michele Cameroto, Mario Helbing All'alba della scienza galileiana: Michel Varro e il suo "De motu tractatus". Un importante capitulo della mecanica di fine cinquecento , Cagliari, CUEC 2000 (with Italian translation by De motu)
- Pierre Speziali (editor Charles Enz ) Physica Genevensis: La Vie et l'Oeuvre de 33 Physiciens Genevois , Chêne-Bourg 1997
- Stillman Drake History of free fall , Toronto 1989
Web links
- ETH Zurich library on the forerunners of Galileo with title page by De Motu
- Robert Netz: Michel Varro. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ For Speziali (see literature) 1546 is given
- ↑ So the false law, which Galileo first accepted. The proportionality of the speed of fall to the fall time would be correct
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Varro, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss lawyer and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1542 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1586 |
| Place of death | Geneva |