Claim: The one who became a professor of mathematics after traveling in Denmark and Sweden and meeting Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778) is Johann Beckmann
Evidence: In 1766 he was appointed extraordinary professor of philosophy at Göttingen. This work entitles Beckmann to be regarded as the founder of scientific technology, a term which he was the first to use in 1772. He was also member of scientific societies in Celle, Halle, Munich, Erfurt, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Saint Petersburg. There he lectured on political and domestic economy, and in 1768 he founded a botanic garden on the principles of Linnaeus. Such was his success that in 1770 he was appointed ordinary professor. He was in the habit of taking his students into the workshops, that they might acquire a practical as well as a theoretical knowledge of different processes and handicrafts.