Levinus Hulsius
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Levinus Hulsius | |
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| Born | 1550  |
| Died | 13 March 1606 |
| Occupations | Writer, publisher, instrument maker, notary, printer |
Levinus Hulsius (1550 – 13 March 1606) was a Flemish maker and dealer of fine scientific instruments, as well as a publisher, printer, linguist, lexicographer, notary, and writer. He wrote extensively on the construction of geometrical instruments. Although he was born in Flanders, he lived and worked in the Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire.
Works
[edit]- Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum (in Latin). Vol. 1. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.
- Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.
- Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum (in Latin). Vol. 3. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.
Sources
[edit]- F.X. de Feller (1818). "HULSIUS (Levinus)". Dictionnaire historique, ou Histoire abrégée (in French). Vol. 4. Paris & Lyon. p. 675.
- Georg Wolfgang Karl Lochner (1881). . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 13. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. p. 335.
- Josef Benzing (1974). "Hulsius (van Hülsen), Levin". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 10. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. p. 30. (full text online).
- Mathematics from the birth of numbers, Jan Gullberg, W. W. Norton & Company; 1st ed edition (October 1997), 1093 pages ISBN 0-393-04002-X ISBN 978-0-393-04002-9
- Ralf Kern: "Wissenschaftliche Instrumente in Ihrer Zeit". Band 2: "Vom Compendium zum Einzelinstrument". Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-866-6
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