June 21, 2010
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Jakob Bernoulli, of the Bernoulli Spiral fame. Sadly enough they ended up putting an Archimedean spiral on his epitaph.
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June 22nd, 2010 at 12:01 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277208096 )
Jacob Bernoulli
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:21 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277209268 )
Jakob Bernoulli and the logarithmic spiral. He was fascinated by the curve’s special property that zooming into it is equivalent to rotating the curve. He wanted the spiral to be inscribed in his epitaph but by mistake an Archimedean spiral which doesn’t share its logarithmic counterpart’s self-similarity was placed instead.
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:32 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277209958 )
Jacob Bernoulli’s epitaph and screwup being the Archimedes spiral instead of logarithmic spiral.
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:34 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277210084 )
Jacob Bernoulli’s grave. He wanted a logarithmic spiral but he got a Archimedean spiral!
June 22nd, 2010 at 1:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277211649 )
J. Bernoulli
It has an Archimedean spiral instead of a logarithmic spiral that he wanted.
June 22nd, 2010 at 1:52 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277214732 )
Jacob Bernoulli’s tomb. The mistake is that the spiral at the bottom isn’t a logarithmic spiral.
June 22nd, 2010 at 2:05 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277215507 )
Jacob Bernoulli.
The error is that the stone mason put a simple arithmetic (Archimedean) spiral on the marker instead of a marvelous (logarithmic) spiral.
June 22nd, 2010 at 2:56 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277218611 )
Bernoulli.
June 22nd, 2010 at 3:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277221401 )
Jacobus Bernoulli
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:18 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277223538 )
Jacob Bernoulli, he wanted to have a logarithmic spiral, but the stone masons made it a Archimedes spiral.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:28 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277224136 )
JAcob Bernoulli’s gravestone.
Bernoulli chose a figure of a logarithmic spiral and the motto Eadem mutata resurgo (“Changed and yet the same, I rise again”) for his gravestone; the spiral executed by the stonemasons was, however, an Archimedean spiral. [1] “[Jacques Bernoulli] wrote that the logarithmic spiral ‘may be used as a symbol, either of fortitude and constancy in adversity, or of the human body, which after all its changes, even after death, will be restored to its exact and perfect self’.”
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:08 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277226528 )
Jacobus Bernoulli
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:57 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277229440 )
bernoulli
logarithmic spiral vs. archimedean spiral was the screweup
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:19 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277230769 )
Jacob Bernoulli’s epitaph.He actually wanted a logarithmic spiral engraved on his headstone but, by error, an Archimedean spiral was placed there instead.
June 22nd, 2010 at 8:26 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277238419 )
Jacob Bernoulli
Bernoulli chose a figure of a logarithmic spiral and the motto Eadem mutata resurgo (“Changed and yet the same, I rise again”) for his gravestone; the spiral executed by the stonemasons was, however, an Archimedean spiral.
June 22nd, 2010 at 8:35 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277238953 )
Jacob Bernoulli, what was supposed to be a logarithmic spiral was carved as an Archimedean spiral.
June 22nd, 2010 at 8:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277239411 )
Epitaph of “Jacob Bernoulli” – a prominent mathematician. Considered the first person to develop the technique for solving separable differential equations.
The screw-up was : Bernoulli chose a figure of a logarithmic spiral and the motto Eadem mutata resurgo (“Changed and yet the same, I rise again”) for his gravestone;
the spiral executed by the stonemasons was, however, an Archimedean spiral.
June 22nd, 2010 at 9:34 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277242489 )
Jacob Bernoulli chose a figure of a logarithmic spiral and the motto Eadem mutata resurgo (“Changed and yet the same, I rise again”) for his gravestone; the spiral executed by the stonemasons was, however, an Archimedean spiral.
June 22nd, 2010 at 9:52 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277243528 )
Bernoulli
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277246607 )
Jacob Bernoulli
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:02 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277247756 )
Jacob Bernoulli
Wanted Logarithmic spiral …got Archimedes spiral
Result : Turning forever in his grave!!!
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:08 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277248086 )
Jacob Bernoulli – spiral and motto do not match
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1277252205 )
Jacob Bernoulli
Archimedean spiral instead of the chosen Logarithmic spiral
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:30 am, GMT +0000 ( 1277260205 )
Jacob Bernoulli.
He wanted a Logarthmic spiral for his gravestone but got an Archimedian instead.
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:05 am, GMT +0000 ( 1277265932 )
Jacob Bernoulli
June 23rd, 2010 at 5:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1277270434 )
Jacob Bernoulli…
Bernoulli chose a figure of a logarithmic spiral and the motto Eadem mutata resurgo (“Changed and yet the same, I rise again”) for his gravestone; the spiral executed by the stonemasons was, however, an Archimedean spiral
June 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1277273640 )
they placed arithmetic spiral instead of logarithmic spiral.
Bernoulli asked for log spiral
June 23rd, 2010 at 8:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1277280170 )
jacob bernoulli & d famous logarithmic-archimedial spiral goof-up
June 23rd, 2010 at 9:28 am, GMT +0000 ( 1277285334 )
Jacob Bernoulli
June 23rd, 2010 at 7:31 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277321476 )
Jakob Bernoulli.
He wanted a logarithmic spiral on his epitaph but they put an Archimedean spiral there instead.
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277332870 )
Jacobus Bernoulli
June 24th, 2010 at 4:47 am, GMT +0000 ( 1277354837 )
Jacob Bernoulli’s. “Bernoulli called the logarithmic spiral Spira mirabilis, “the marvelous spiral”, and wanted one engraved on his headstone. Unfortunately, an Archimedean spiral was placed there instead” – from Wikiquote.
June 24th, 2010 at 9:19 am, GMT +0000 ( 1277371186 )
Jacob Bernoulli’s epitaph.
At the bottom what we see is Archimedean spiral,whereas the intention was to engrave a logarithmic spiral.
June 24th, 2010 at 10:51 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1277419896 )
Epitaph of Jacob Bernoulli.
The spiral at the bottom is an Archimedian spiral rather than a logarithmic spiral as Bernoulli would’ve liked.