![]() I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy. I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. This position was ideal for Lambert who could now concentrate even more deeply on his own study of mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy. When he was seventeen years old Lambert left his position at the ironworks to take up a post as secretary to Johann Rudolf Iselin who was the editor of the Basler Zeitung, a conservative daily paper. Soon his increasing skill in academic subjects helped him to gain work as a private tutor. In fact it was a natural occupation for Heinrich since he had acquired great skill in calligraphy and he was given a job at the ironworks at Seppois, which was south of Mulhouse and almost due west of Basel. This pattern of study became increasingly difficult when, at the age of fifteen, he had to work as a clerk to earn more money for the family. Usually his day was fully occupied in helping his father but in the evenings he would study scientific subjects on his own. Most young boys would have ended their education at that point, but not young Heinrich who continued to study in his own spare time. However, when he was twelve years old he had to leave school to help his father with tailoring. Heinrich attended school in Mulhouse, receiving a reasonably good education up to the age of twelve, studying French and Latin in addition to elementary subjects. It was a large family, with two girls in addition to the five boys, and Lukas Lambert did not have sufficient income to enable him to support and educate the family in comfort. Lukas married Elizabeth Schmerber in 1724 and Johann Heinrich Lambert was one of their five sons. Lambert's father, Lukas Lambert, was a tailor as his own father had been. At that time Mulhouse was a free imperial city which had formed defensive alliances with the Swiss. In 1635 the Lambert family, who were Calvinists, fled from Lorraine as religious refugees and settled in Mulhouse. Three Christian denominations, Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism, each tried to impose themselves and various countries joined in the conflicts which raged across Europe for many years. Biography Johann Heinrich Lambert's family were originally from Lorraine which was a French territory up to the Thirty Years' War. ![]()
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