Simulacra by John Michell5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() He has been called the father both of seismology and of magnetometry.Īccording to one science journalist, "a few specifics of Michell's work really do sound like they are ripped from the pages of a twentieth century astronomy textbook." The American Physical Society (APS) described Michell as being "so far ahead of his scientific contemporaries that his ideas languished in obscurity, until they were re-invented more than a century later". He invented an apparatus to measure the mass of the Earth, and explained how to manufacture an artificial magnet. Recognizing that double stars were a product of mutual gravitation, he was the first to apply statistics to the study of the cosmos. Considered "one of the greatest unsung scientists of all time", he is the first person known to have proposed the existence of black holes, and the first to have suggested that earthquakes travelled in (seismic) waves. ![]() John Michell ( / ˈ m ɪ tʃ əl/ 25 December 1724 – 21 April 1793) was an English natural philosopher and clergyman who provided pioneering insights into a wide range of scientific fields including astronomy, geology, optics, and gravitation. ![]()
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