George Graham improves the pendulum clock's accuracy to 1 second per day by compensating for changes in the pendulum's length due to temperature variations.
September 11 - RudolfJakobCamerarius, German botanist (born 1665)
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The professorships were held by individual families; free positions were commonly given to sons and sons-in-law.
It is amazing that despite nepotism and despite the provincial situation influenced by confessionalism and absolutism of small state scholars with nationwide prominence like RudolfJakobCamerarius, the discoverer of the venereal nature of plants or Johann Georg Gmelin, explorer of Siberia, came to work at the university.
In the middle of the 18th century Duke Karl Eugen tried to help the university.
