Václav Prokop Diviš

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Václav Prokop Diviš (born 26 March 1698 in Helvíkovice nad Orlicí [Bohemia] (German: Helkowitz an der Wilden Adler), today part of Žamberk nad Orlicí [Bohemia] (German: Senftenberg in Böhmen) – died 25 December 1765 in Přímětice (German: Brenditz), today part of Znojmo [Moravia] (German: Znaim in Mähren) was a Czech theologian and natural scientist who invented the lightning rod between 1750 and 1754 independently of Benjamin Franklin, and constructed the first electrified musical instrument in history, the so-called Denis d'or.

His last name is pronounced Deevish, and spelling variants are Divisch or Diwisch.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Reinhard Breymayer: Bibliographie zu Prokop Diviš. In:

Friedrich Christoph Oetinger: Die Lehrtafel der Prinzessin Antonia. Hrsg. von Reinhard Breymayer und Friedrich Häußermann. Teil 2. Anmerkungen. Berlin, New York 1977, pp. 431-453

  • Luboš Nový (Ed.): Dějiny exaktních věd v českých zemích do konce 19. století. Praha 1961

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