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Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was a Dutch statesman, who played an important role in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain. In 1586, Van Oldenbarnevelt was made Land'... |
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Johannes Kepler, Laws Planetary Motion
Johannes Kepler is now chiefly remembered for discovering the three laws of planetary motion that bear his name published in 1609 and 1619). He also did important work in... |
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Leeghwater, Engineer
Jan Adriaanszoon Leeghwater (De Rijp, The Netherlands) was a Dutch mill builder and hydraulic engineer. He was involved in the reclamation of the Beemster polder, the fir... |
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens was the most renowned northern European artist of his day, and is now widely recognized as one of the foremost painters in W... |
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Willebrord Snellius, Mathematician
Willebrord Snellius (born Willebrord Snel van Royen) was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician, most famous for the law of refraction now known as Snell's law. Snellius wa... |
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Jan Baptist van Helmont, Discovery CO2
Jan Baptist van Helmont was an early modern period Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and iatrochemistry, and... |
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Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish Writer
Quevedo was a Spanish satirist, novelist and poet and one of the great writers of the Spanish Golden Age. His Los sueños is a brilliant and bitterly satiric account of th... |
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Frans Hals
Frans Hals was the great 17th-century portraitist of the Dutch bourgeoisie of Haarlem, where he spent practically all his life. Hals evolved a technique that was close to... |
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Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Poet
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft was a Dutch poet, dramawriter and historian by profession. He was the son of the famous plural mayor of Amsterdam, P. C. Hooft. He travelled thr... |
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Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
Frederick Henry, prince of Orange; son of William the Silent by Louise de Coligny. He became stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands upon the death (1625)... |
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Bredero, Dutch Dramatist & Poet
Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero is considered the major Dutch poet of his generation, particularly for his spontaneous love sonnets. The first Dutch master of comedy, Bredero... |
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Cardinal Richelieu, Premier of France
Cardinal Richelieu was extremely intelligent and at the age of nine was sent to College de Navarre in Paris. In 1602, at age seventeen he began studying theology seriousl... |
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Heinrich Schütz, German Composer
Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be on... |
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Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor VOC
Jan Pieterszoon Coen was an officer of Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the early seventeenth century, holding two terms as its Governor-General in the Dutch East Indies... |
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Thomas Hobbes
Decades after completing his traditional education as a classicist at Oxford and serving as tutor of William Cavendish, Thomas Hobbes became convinced that the methods em... |
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