“The End of the Mannerist Century”
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Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner was a German astrophysicist who studied optical illusions. He was also an early psychical investigator. He discovered the Zöllner illusion where lines that are parallel appear diagonal.
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science · German astrophysicist · astronomer · astrophysicist · physicist · university teacher · parapsychologist · also Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Zöllner
Born 8 November 1834 · Died 25 April 1882 · Q61357
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1986· 2 entries
“Poetry at Women's Music Festivals: Oil and Water”
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“Of Poetry and Women and the World”
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1976· 1 entry
“The Architecture of Luis Barragán”
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1961· 1 entry
“An interview with James Baldwin”
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1957· 1 entry
“Wyndham Lewis Against Abstract Art”
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1942· 1 entry
“An Old Man on the River Bank”
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1934· 1 entry
Botanist Josef Velenovský published a genus of fungi named Zoellneria (in the family Sclerotiniaceae) and named in Zöllner's honour
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1919· 1 entry
“The Socialist Nation and the Artist”
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1882· 1 entry
Died 1882-04-25.
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1879· 1 entry
Hermann Ulrici brought Zollner's experiments to the attention of scientists in Germany by describing them in an academic journal
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1875· 1 entry
When he visited the scientist William Crookes in England
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1871· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1871).
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1867· 1 entry
Made the first measurement of the Sun's apparent magnitude, using a particular "telescope / photometer" he designed
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1851· 1 entry
“Similes, Parables and Fables”
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1834· 1 entry
Born 1834-11-08.
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