Mathematicians of the Enlightenment
The atlas holds 7 people and 166 moments here, from 1687 to 1810.
Moments
- 1797 Retires to Mount Vernon George Washington
- 1798 Private scholar in Brunswick Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1799 Meeting with Bolyai Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1799 Visit to Pfaff Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1799 Dies at Mount Vernon George Washington
- 1799 Inspects Mount Vernon farms George Washington
- 1801 First presidential inauguration Thomas Jefferson
- 1803 Visit to Wilhelm Olbers Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1803 Meeting Franz Xaver von Zach on the Brocken Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1803 Practical astronomy at Seeberg Observatory Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1804 Dies in his Königsberg home Immanuel Kant
- 1805 Marriage to Johanna Osthoff Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1807 Summer visit to Olbers Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1807 Arrival as Göttingen professor and observatory director Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1809 Visit to Olbers after Johanna's death Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1810 Marriage to Minna Waldeck Carl Friedrich Gauss