It
belongs to a family with a remarkable tradition in the construction of
scientific instruments and, graduated in medicine in 1715, soon it
abandons the medical profession in order to dedicate to the physical,
becoming member of the scientific Academies more notes, like those of
Berlin, London, Paris, Montpelier, Stockholm and Pietroburgo.
It
teaches to physical and mathematics to Duisburg and Utrecht, and
publishes, between 1726 and the 1731, several works, between which
having a title it “Introductio to philosophiam
naturalem”, in
that disserta also on the electricity, and that it is placed as the
immensest treaty than physical experiences them of the time, as well as
to be then adopted they give To. Time like text book. In 1740 it
returns to the city native that it has offered a chair to it, and in
1745 reaches the invention of the first condenser of electricity, or
“bottle of Leida”, that it will have a great
importance in the
development of the electro logy.