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Nicolaas Hartsoeker

Index Nicolaas Hartsoeker

Nicolaas Hartsoeker (26 March 1656 – 10 December 1725) was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who invented the screw-barrel simple microscope. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 42 relations: Aerial telescope, Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Animalcule, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Axiom, Biology, Caspar Netscher, Christiaan Huygens, County of Holland, Dutch Republic, French Academy of Sciences, Gouda, South Holland, Heidelberg University, Homunculus, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, Linda Hall Library, Lordship of Utrecht, Mathematician, Mathematics, Microscope, Microscopy, Minister (Christianity), Moon, Moordrecht, Observatory, Paris, Paris Observatory, Peter the Great, Physicist, Physics, Preformationism, Prussian Academy of Sciences, Refracting telescope, Remonstrants, Robert Hooke, Rotterdam, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Spermatozoon, Utrecht, Wine.

  2. 17th-century Dutch inventors
  3. 17th-century Dutch mathematicians
  4. 18th-century Dutch physicists
  5. Dutch biologists

Aerial telescope

An aerial telescope is a type of very long focal length refracting telescope, built in the second half of the 17th century, that did not use a tube.

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Alkmaar

Alkmaar is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Animalcule

Animalcule (little animal) is an archaic term for microscopic organisms that included bacteria, protozoans, and very small animals.

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (24 October 1632 – 26 August 1723) was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. Nicolaas Hartsoeker and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek are 17th-century Dutch inventors.

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Axiom

An axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments.

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Biology

Biology is the scientific study of life.

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Caspar Netscher

Caspar (or Gaspar) Netscher (1639 – January 15, 1684) was a Dutch portrait and genre painter.

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Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, (also spelled Huyghens; Hugenius; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. Nicolaas Hartsoeker and Christiaan Huygens are 17th-century Dutch inventors and 17th-century Dutch mathematicians.

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County of Holland

The County of Holland was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and from 1433 part of the Burgundian Netherlands, from 1482 part of the Habsburg Netherlands and from 1581 onward the leading province of the Dutch Republic, of which it remained a part until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.

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Dutch Republic

The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.

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French Academy of Sciences

The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.

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Gouda, South Holland

Gouda is a city and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, between Rotterdam and Utrecht, in the province of South Holland.

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Heidelberg University

Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Homunculus

A homunculus ("little person",: homunculi) is a small human being.

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Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine

Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine (Jan Wellem in Low German, English: John William; 19 April 1658 – 8 June 1716) of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Elector Palatine (1690–1716), Duke of Neuburg (1690–1716), Duke of Jülich and Berg (1679–1716), and Duke of Upper Palatinate and Cham (1707–1714).

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Linda Hall Library

The Linda Hall Library is a privately endowed American library of science, engineering and technology located in Kansas City, Missouri, sitting "majestically on a urban arboretum." It is the "largest independently funded public library of science, engineering and technology in North America" and "among the largest science libraries in the world.".

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Lordship of Utrecht

The Lordship of Utrecht was formed in 1528 when Charles V of Habsburg conquered the Bishopric of Utrecht, during the Guelders Wars.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Microscope

A microscope is a laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.

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Microscopy

Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view objects and areas of objects that cannot be seen with the naked eye (objects that are not within the resolution range of the normal eye).

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Minister (Christianity)

In Christianity, a minister is a person authorised by a church or other religious organization to perform functions such as teaching of beliefs; leading services such as weddings, baptisms or funerals; or otherwise providing spiritual guidance to the community.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Moordrecht

Moordrecht is a village and a former municipality in the province of South Holland, the Netherlands, situated along the river Hollandse IJssel.

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Observatory

An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Paris Observatory

The Paris Observatory (Observatoire de Paris), a research institution of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is the foremost astronomical observatory of France, and one of the largest astronomical centers in the world.

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Peter the Great

Peter I (–), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725. Nicolaas Hartsoeker and Peter the Great are 1725 deaths.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Physics

Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.

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Preformationism

In the history of biology, preformationism (or preformism) is a formerly popular theory that organisms develop from miniature versions of themselves.

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Prussian Academy of Sciences

The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Prussian Academy of Arts, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin Academy" may also refer.

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Refracting telescope

A refracting telescope (also called a refractor) is a type of optical telescope that uses a lens as its objective to form an image (also referred to a dioptric telescope).

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Remonstrants

The Remonstrants (or the Remonstrant Brotherhood) is a Protestant movement that split from the Dutch Reformed Church in the early 17th century.

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Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke (18 July 16353 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect.

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Rotterdam

Rotterdam (lit. "The Dam on the River Rotte") is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.

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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Spermatozoon

A spermatozoon (also spelled spermatozoön;: spermatozoa) is a motile sperm cell, or moving form of the haploid cell that is the male gamete.

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Utrecht

Utrecht (Utrecht dialect) is the fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the province of Utrecht.

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Wine

Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit.

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See also

17th-century Dutch inventors

17th-century Dutch mathematicians

18th-century Dutch physicists

Dutch biologists

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaas_Hartsoeker

Also known as Hartsoeker, Nicolas Hartsoeker.