Since the topic of Lawvere paper is differential geometry, the Bernoulli is likely Jacob Bernoulli, or his brother Johann, and refers to their calculus of variations. Further evidence is this paper by Lawvere on category theory, where he explicitly refers to Bernoulli in the context of the calculus of variations.
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