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Monument to Friedrich Magnus Schwerd

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Monument to Friedrich Magnus Schwerd

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    August 15, 2023

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    Artist: Ferdinand von Müller.
    Friedrich Magnus Schwerd (1792-1871), bust. Bronze on sandstone base. Schwerd was a teacher and natural scientist from Speyer. He revolutionized land surveying with the principle of triangulation.
    Monuments to his surveying activities can still be found today in the south of Speyer (Small Speyer Base, district border with Römerberg) and in the north (Spaldinger Straße).
    Source: speyer.de/de/strukturierte-daten/kunst/friedrich-magnus-schwerd
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    September 24, 2023

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    From 1814 until his death, Schwerd worked as a teacher of mathematics and physics, as well as Latin, Greek and biology, at the Royal Institute of Studies in Speyer, today's Gymnasium am Kaiserdom. He earned a high reputation for his scientific work. In the field of astronomy, he carried out precision measurements on 1,751 stars. A mathematical textbook he published in 1828 was still used in English translation in New York 100 years later.
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    August 18, 2023

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    An imposing statue of Schwerd
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