Born in 1654, he received a degree in philosohy from the University of Basel in 1671. Rejecting the clerical career his father had mapped out for him he studied mathematics, physics abd astronomy. He traveled and corresponded widely and met some of the leading scientists of his day including Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle. Together with his brother Johan he was a keen supporter of Leibniz claim to have disciovered The Calculus against a counter claim by Isaac Newton. (1)
Jakob Bernoulli