Bernouilli (Bernouil`li) , name of a Swiss family of mathematicians, born at Basel, though of Dutch origin—James, John, and Daniel, of whom John is the most celebrated; was professor first at St. Petersburg and then at Basel; discovered the exponential calculus and the method of integrating rational fractions, as well as the line of swiftest descent (1667‒1748).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo * Bernstorff, Count