photo neededIn science, Franz Josef Pisko (1827-1888), oft-cited as F.J. Pisko, was a Austrian teacher, textbook author, and physicist noted for his 1879 “On the Present Fundamental Conceptions of Physics”, wherein he gives a fairly cogent verbal historical overview of thermodynamics, and for his circa 1875 view, cited by German physicist Ludwig Buchner, that modern science of the thermodynamics of force and matter had displaced or supplanted God. [1]

Overview
Pisko was a physics professor somewhere. His main publications include: Textbook of Physics (1854), The Newer Acoustic Devices (1865), Light and Color (1869), and What is Heat? (1875).

Quotes
The following are related quotes:

“And if the inscription on the ancient pyramid of Sais says, ‘I am all that is, that was, and that will be, no mortal man has yet removed the veil’, it might be replied thereto, that modern science has removed the veil and has discovered that force and matter were, are, and will be.”
— Franz Pisko (c.1875), front matter quotes to Ludwig Buchner’s Force and Matter [2]
Franz Pisko (obituary)
The German obituary of Pisko. [3]

References
1. (a) Pisko, Franz J. (1879). “On the Present Fundamental Conceptions of Physics” (translator: L. Stoerzer), Two Lectures delivered in Vienna on the 10th and 17th of Dec, in; Report of the Board of Regents, Volume 34 (pgs. 485-518). Publisher.
(b) Pisko (German → English) – Wikipedia.
2. Buchner, Ludwig. (1855). Force and Matter: Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe, with a System of Morality Based Thereon (15th German edition; 4th English edition) (iv). New York: Peter Eckler, 1891.
3. Franz Josef Pisko (obituary) – Geni.com.

Further reading
● Pisko, Franz J. (1875). What is Heat? (Was ist die Wärme?). Sechshaus, Selbstverlag der k.k. Realschule.

External links
Pisko, Franz Josef (1827-1888) – WorldCat Identities.

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