Willem Jacob 's Gravesande was a Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher, born in 's-Hertogenbosch on 26 September 1688 and dead on 28 February 1742. He studied law at Leiden, took his doctorate in 1707 and practised in The Hague, where his Essai de perspective of 1711 was praised by Johann Bernoulli. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1715 after meeting Newton in London, he became professor of mathematics and astronomy at Leiden in 1717 and added chairs of civil and military architecture in 1730 and philosophy in 1734, using them to bring Newton's work to the Netherlands. His Physices elementa mathematica of 1720 taught Newtonian mechanics through experimental demonstrations, and in 1722 his experiments with brass balls dropped into clay gave the first experimental measurement of kinetic energy. He declined invitations from Peter the Great and Frederick the Great and stayed in Leiden.
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Jacob 's Gravesande (26 September 1688 – 28 February 1742) was a Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics and the first experimental measurement of
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Jacob 's Gravesande (26 September 1688-28 February 1742) was a Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics and the first experimental measurement of
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Jacob 's Gravesande (26 September 1688-28 February 1742) was a Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics and the first experimental measurement of
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As professor of mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy at Leiden University, he helped to propagate Isaac Newton's ideas in Continental Europe.
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main scientific work is Physices elementa mathematica, experimentis confirmata, sive introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam ("Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy, Confirmed by Experiments; or, an Introduction to Newtonian Philosophy"),
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His Essai de perspective ("Essay on Perspective"), published in 1711, was praised by the influential Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli.
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