Johann Sulzer (other)
Johann Sulzer may refer to: * Johann Georg Sulzer (1720–1779), Swiss mathematician and philosopher * Johann Heinrich Sulzer (1735–1813), Swiss entomologist * Johann Jakob Sulzer Johann Jakob Sulzer (23 December 1821 – 27 June 1897) was a Switzerland, Swiss politician, mayor of Winterthur (1858–1873) and President of the Swiss Council of States (1876). He was the son of Johann Jakob Sulzer Sr., founder of Sulz ...

Johann Georg Sulzer
Johann Georg Sulzer (; 16 October 1720 in Winterthur – 27 February 1779 in Berlin) was a Swiss professor of Mathematics, who later on moved on to the field of electricity. He was a Wolffian philosopher and director of the philosophical section of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, and translator of David Hume's ''An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals'' into German in 1755. Sulzer is best known as the subject of an anecdote in the history of the development of the battery. In 1752, Sulzer happened to put the tip of his tongue between pieces of two different metals whose edges were in contact. He exclaimed, "a pungent sensation, reminds me of the taste of green vitriol when I placed my tongue between these metals." He thought the metals set up a vibratory motion in their particles which excited the nerves of taste. The event became known as the "battery tongue test": the saliva serves as the electrolyte carrying the current between two metallic electrodes. His ''Genera ...
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Johann Heinrich Sulzer
Johann Heinrich Sulzer (18 September 1735, Winterthur – 14 August 1813, Winterthur) was a Swiss physician and entomologist. He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen and later started a medical practice in Winterthur. As a physician he distinguished himself in his work with smallpox vaccinations. In the field of entomology, he was the author of: * ''Die Kennzeichen der Insekten, nach Anleitung des Königl. Schwed. Ritters und Leibarzts Karl Linnaeus, (...)'' (1761) – The characteristics of insects, according to the instructions of Carl Linnaeus. * ''Abgekürzte Geschichte der Insecten nach dern Linaeischen System'' (1776) – Abbreviated history of insects according to the Linnaean System Linnaean taxonomy can mean either of two related concepts: # The particular form of biological classification (taxonomy) set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set forth in his '' Systema Naturae'' (1735) and subsequent works. In the taxonomy of Linnaeus ....
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