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Salomon Coster (c.1622 - 1659)
Bezit 't PRIVILEGE = exclusieve recht gedurende 21 jaar SLINGER-uurwerken met gangregelaar te maken - verleend door de Staten Generaal** totale produktie : ca. 30 klokken, waarvan nog ZEVEN bekend* wan...
René Descartes, seigneur du Perron MP (1596 - 1650)
René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy, much of subsequent Western philosophy is a resp...
Christiaan Huygens (de eerste theoretische natuurkundige) MP (1629 - 1695)
He was a famous mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He invented the pendulum clock, the principal of the steamengine and a gunpowder engine. Jan Jansz Stampioen was for two years (1643-1645) his t...
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1913 MP (1853 - 1926)
"1913: Nobel Prize in Physics"
"Door meten tot weten" NLD-1 & NLD-2 : Natuurkundige. 1913: winnaar van de Nobelprijs voor de Natuurkunde en hoogleraar aan de Universiteit van Leiden. "Door meten tot weten" was de slagzin van zijn la...
Herman Boerhaave MP (1668 - 1738)
Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometim...