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About G. C. Lichtenberg

G. C. Lichtenberg was a 18th-century German scientist and satirist. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth

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