Johann Sturm
Born(1635-11-03)3 November 1635
Hilpoltstein
Died26 December 1703(1703-12-26) (aged 68)
Altdorf bei Nürnberg
NationalityGerman
OccupationPhilosopher

Johann Christoph Sturm (3 November 1635 – 26 December 1703)[1] was a German philosopher, professor at University of Altdorf and founder of a short-lived scientific academy known as the Collegium Curiosum, based on the model of the Florentine Accademia del Cimento.[2] He edited two volumes of the academy's proceedings under the title Collegium Experimentale (1676 and 1685).[2] In 1670, he translated the works of Archimedes into German.[1]

Sturm is the author of Physica Electiva (1697), a book that criticized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and prompted him to publish a rebuke. Sturm's critique was aimed at Leibniz's view that Nature and/or its constituent parts possess some creative force of their own. This criticism was partly theological, in that Sturm claimed Leibniz's view of Nature undermined the sovereignty of the Christian God.[3]

Works

  • Collegium experimentale, Nuremberg: Endter, vol. 1 (1676), available here and here; vol. 2 (1685) available here, here, and here.
  • Physica electiva sive hypothetica, vol 1, Nuremberg: Endter, 1697, available here and here; vol.2, Altdorf: Kohles, 1698.

As well as the following: [4]

  • Mathesis Juvenilis
  • Physica Modernae Compendium
  • Praelectiones Academicae
  • A list of works by Sturm with links to online versions is available at Astronomie in Nürnberg, section "Ausgewählte Werke".

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 Tooke, W.; Beloe, W.; Nares, R. (1798). A New and General Biographical Dictionary. G. G. and J. Robinson. p. 221.
  2. 1 2 "Academies: Scientific Academies". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 1 (14 ed.). 1930. p. 81.
  3. ↑ Gottfried Leibniz, Philosophical Papers and Letters, ed. by Leroy Loemker, (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing, 1969) 499-508.
  4. 1 2 Chalmers, A. (1816). The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Hist. and Crit. Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. Sim - Sty. Vol. 28. Nichols. p. 495. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  5. ↑ "Archimedes Project". archimedes.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  6. ↑ Maunder, S. (1838). The biographical treasury: a dictionary of universal biography. Longman. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  7. ↑ Gorton, J. (1838). A General Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 3. Whittaker and Company. Retrieved 2017-01-08.

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