The Lichtenberg Reader: Selected Writings

by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

189 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today, he is remembered for his notebooks published posthumously, which he himself called "waste books", using the English bookkeeping term, and for his discovery of the strange treelike patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.