BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• astronomy

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Residence

• Paris 

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N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Foreign Member Afd. Natuurkunde 24-06-1947

Provenance

• Lyot, B., Verslagen Natuurkunde 61, 1952, p. 125-127 door H.R. Kruyt; Jaarboek 1953/54,p. 253-258 door M. Minnaert.

Publications

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Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• mathematics
• astronomy

Biography:
Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.

Residence

• Washington (DC) 

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Foreign Member Afd. Natuurkunde 13-05-1898

Provenance

• Ledenlijst in: De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008. Kaa, D.J. vam de, Roo, Y. de. KNAW Press (2008)

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• astronomy

Biography:
N/A

Residence

• Leiden 

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Member Afd. Natuurkunde 18-08-1945
• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Member Afd. Natuurkunde / (resigned) 19-05-1937 - 19-01-1943

Provenance

• Oort, J.H., Levensberichten en herdenkingen 1993, p. 67-73 door H.C. van de Hulst.

Publications

N/A

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• astronomy
• surveying

Biography:
Mathematical instrument maker and surveyor in Friesland. In 1597 Wouter studied mathematics, surveying and astronomy at Franeker University. In 1631 he was a surveyor.

Collections: Fries museum Leeuwarden (astrolabe), Franeker Museum Martena (globe).

Residence

• Leeuwarden 
• Franeker 

Occupation

• Surveyor 1631~
• Instrument maker (astrolabe, globe) 1600~

Education

• student mathematics, surveying, and astronomy 1597 - Universiteit Franeker, Franeker

Membership

N/A

Provenance

• Morpurgo, E., Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970).
• Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).

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N/A

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• astronomy
• astrology
• medicine
• natural philosophy

Biography:
Van Wissekerke was a mathematician and designer of mathematical and astronomical instruments born in Zeeland. He designed clocks, planetariums and spheres for King René of Sicily. He made spheres for the duke of Milan as well. In 1494, in Carpentras, he wrote a dissertation about an equatorium.

Residence

• Carpentras 

Occupation

• Instrument maker, astrologist, astronomer 1450~ - 1494
• mathematician 

Education

N/A

Membership

N/A

Provenance

• Morpurgo, E. Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970).
• Liber desideratus super celestium motuum indagatione sine calculo (1494). Reprinted: Liber desideratus 1494 : facsimile, with an introd. by D.J. Struik (Nieuwkoop 1965).

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• medicine
• astronomy
• botany

Biography:
Court physician and astronomer of emperor Maximilian II and Rudolf II. Collaborated with Mattioli in botanical matters. Probably advised Rudolf II to invite Tycho Brahe to his court.

Translated Mattioli's commentary on Dioscorides in Czech (1562). Published on astronomy, for example the comet of 1577.

Residence

• Wien 
• Prague 

Occupation

• physician 1576 - 1600 - Court of Rudolf II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Prague
• astrologer/astronomer  - Court of Rudolf II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Prague
• physician 1567 - 1576 - Court of Maximilian II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Wien

Education

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Membership

N/A

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N/A

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BIO

Dissertation: Het warmtespectrum en de trillingsperioden der moleculen van eenige gassen

Highest degree: doctor

Fields of interest:

• astronomy
• physics

Biography:
N/A

Residence

• Utrecht 
• Amsterdam 

Occupation

• hoogleraar in natuurkunde, fysische aardrijkskunde en meteorologie 1896 - Universiteit Utrecht

Education

• physics student 1875, Utrecht

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Member Afd. Natuurkunde 11-05-1897
• Nederlands Natuur- en Geneeskundig Congres
  member [..1890]

Provenance

• Julius, W.H., Verslagen Natuurkunde 34, 1925, p. 365-368 door F.A.F.C. Went.
• Ledenlijst Vereeniging het Nederl. Natuur- en Geneesk. Congres (1890).
• H.A.M. Snelders, 'Julius, Willem Henri (1860-1925)', in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland. URL:http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/julius [12-11-2013].

Publications

• The total solar radiation during the annular eclipse on April 17th 1912 Year: . Pages: 14. (PDF format)
  
• On the origin of double lines in the spectrum of the chromosphere, due to anomalous dispersion of the light from the photosphere Year: . Pages: 11. (PDF format)
  
• Regular consequences of irregular refraction in the sun Year: . Pages: 23. (PDF format)
  
• Selective absorption and anomalous scattering of light in extensive masses of gas Year: . Pages: 18. (PDF format)
  
• Wave-lengths of formerly observed emission and absorption bands in the infra-red spectrum Year: . Pages: 9. (PDF format)
  
• Perspective shortening in spectroheliograms, and transparency of the photosphere Year: . Pages: 9. (PDF format)
  
• The lines H and K in the spectrum of the various parts of the solar disk Year: . Pages: 12. (PDF format)
  
• A new method for determining the rate of decrease of the radiating power from the center toward the limb of the solar disk Year: . Pages: 14. (PDF format)
  
• Anomalous refraction phenomena investigated with the spectroheliograph Year: . Pages: 12. (PDF format)
  
• An hypothesis on the nature of solar prominences Year: . Pages: 10. (PDF format)
  

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• astronomy

Biography:
N/A

Residence

• Swarthmore (Penn.) 

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Correspondent Afdeling Natuurkunde 02-06-1966

Provenance

• Kamp, P. van de, Levensberichten en herdenkingen 1996, p. 49-53 door E.P.J. van den Heuvel.

Publications

N/A

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Dissertation: Onderzoek der trillende platte vliezen

Highest degree: doctor

Fields of interest:

• astronomy
• physics
• mathematics

Biography:
Kapteyn was born in Barneveld, and grew up in a boarding school run by his parents, Gerrit Jacobus Kapteyn and the former Elisabeth Cornelia Koopmans. He was the ninth of fifteen children and family life was minimal because of his parents' running of the school. Whereas Kapteyn's older brother, Albertus Philippus (1848-1927) was judged by his father not to be suited for a higher education and was sent to a trade school (he became a well-known engineer, who ran Westinghouse Airbrake Europe), Jacobus showed his talents early and went to the University of Utrecht in 1868, at the age of 17. He took his Ph.D. in 1875 with a dissertation on Onderzoek der trillende platte vliezen (A Study of Vibrating Flat Membranes).
Kapteyn's first position was as observer at the Leiden Observatory (which because of Kaiser had become one of the foremost institutions for position measurements), but in 1877 he accepted the appointment to the new chair of astronomy at the university of Groningen. Had he remained at Leiden, he would undoubtedly have made his career as an observer. At Groningen, however, this was not an option: his requests for a well-equipped observatory fell on deaf ears because of opposition from the existing observatories at Leiden and Utrecht. Instead, he entered an arrangement with David Gill at the Cape Observatory: in Groningen, Kapteyn would measure the plates made by Gill's staff in their photographic Durchmusterung of the southern skies. For this work, Kapteyn designed precision instruments and organized an astronomical laboratory. The work began in 1885 and the positions of 450,000 southern stars thus measured appeared in three volumes between 1896 and 1900.
But stellar positions and brightnesses were only a means to an end. Like many other astronomers of his day, Kapteyn was interested in the distribution of stars and the structure of the Milky Way. By 1906, he had organized the international cooperative 'Plan of Selected Areas', in which the work of cataloguing the stars in 206 sample areas was divided among 30 observatories, a work that was not finished until almost half a century after Kapteyn's death. The information obtained was: apparent brightness, proper motion, radial motion, color, etc. Since the correlation of apparent brightness with distance had already been proven erroneous by William Herschel toward the end of his life, Kapteyn took a statistical approach: although the correlation was false for individual stars, it should apply for representative groupings of stars. By about 1920, as Kapteyn's career neared its end, enough information was becoming available to reveal a disk-like structure of the Milky Way, about six times as wide as thick, with the Sun near the center. Kapteyn was aware of the problem of extinction absorption of starlight by interstellar matter, but all his efforts to measure this were negative. The 'Kapteyn Universe' was therefore altered when absorption was demonstrated: its size had to be increased (although not as much as Harlow Shapley advocated) and the position of the Sun was determined, as argued by Shapley, to be eccentric. Kapteyn's program, however, retained its validity and was pursued by his successors. His study also showed that there were preferred motions of stars in the solar neighborhood, which showed relative motions of two groups of stars: this was important evidence that the Milky Way had a spiral structure and that our Sun was in one of the spiral arms.

After World War I, Kapteyn was one of a handful of scientists (see also Lorentz) who opposed the exclusion of German and Austrian scientists from international bodies and cooperative research, a practice not stopped until after his death. Kapteyn retired in 1921

Residence

• Groningen 

Occupation

• hoogleraar sterrenkunde en theoretische mechanica 1877 - 1921, Groningen

Education

• physics and mathematics student 1868 - 1875, Leiden

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Member Afd. Natuurkunde 09-05-1888
• Royal Society of London
  Foreign Member 26-06-1919
• Nederlands Natuur- en Geneeskundig Congres
  Member [..1890]

Provenance

• Kapteyn, J.C., Verslagen Natuurkunde 31, 1922, p. 284-287 door F.A.F.C. Went.
• Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederlandse Wiskundigen. http://www.bwnw.nl/
• Biografie opgenomen in History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands
• A. Blaauw, 'Kapteijn, Jacobus Cornelius (1851-1922)', in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland. URL:http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/kapteijnjc [12-11-2013].
• Ledenlijst Vereeniging het Nederl. Natuur- en Geneesk. Congres (1890).

Publications

• The Milky way and the star-streams Year: . Pages: 8. (PDF format)
  
• The determination of the Apex of the Solar motion Year: . Pages: 23. (PDF format)
  
• On the parallax of the nebulae Year: . Pages: 10. (PDF format)
  
• Reply to the criticism of Dr. J. Stein, S.J Year: . Pages: 12. (PDF format)
  
• Star systems and the milky way Year: . Pages: 4. (PDF format)
  
• On the mean star-density at different distances from the solar system Year: . Pages: 11. (PDF format)
  
• On the luminosity of the fixed stars Year: . Pages: 33. (PDF format)
  

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• astronomy

Biography:
N/A

Residence

• Altenburg 

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijk Instituut, eerste klasse
  Correspondent, living abroad 08-04-1809 - 26-10-1851
• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Foreign Member Afd. Natuurkunde 26-10-1851

Provenance

• Ledenlijst in: De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008. Kaa, D.J. vam de, Roo, Y. de. KNAW Press (2008)

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N/A

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• astronomy
• geodesy
• geophysics

Biography:
N/A

Residence

N/A

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Foreign Member Afd. Natuurkunde 30-06-1988

Provenance

• Ledenlijst in: De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008. Kaa, D.J. vam de, Roo, Y. de. KNAW Press (2008)

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N/A

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• astronomy

Biography:
Pannekoek was the son of Johannes Pannekoek and Wilhelmina Dorothea Beins, members of the rural middle class. He studied astronomy at the University of Leiden, where he became an observer at the Astronomical Observatory in 1898. He took his doctorate in 1902 on a dissertation on the variable star Algol. The following year, he married Johanna Maria Nassau Noordewier. The program of meridian measurements instituted by Frederik Kaiser two decades earlier was too confining for Pannekoek, who considered these measurement of little scientific use. A devoted socialist, he had become a member of the SDAP (Social Democratic Worker's Party) in 1902, and in 1905 he left the observatory to accept a position at the Socialist party school in Berlin and later Bremen. He was an active contributor, and later editor, of De Nieuwe Tijd and emerged as an important theoretician of the left wing of the German SPD. In Germany, he regularly contributed theoretical articles to both Die Neue Zeit and Bremer Bürger-zeitung.
The First World War forced Pannekoek to return to the Netherlands, where he became teacher at secondary schools in several places. He also continued his political activities, adopting a revolutionary international position, contributing a number of articles to Lichtstrahlen and Arbeiterspolitik, important leftwing journals. His political activities caused the Minister of Education to hold up and eventually, after the communist revolution in Hungary, to reject his appointment as vice-director of the Leiden Observatory. Pannekoek remained one of the most important theoreticians of international Socialist, and the Communist, movement. He is best known for his insistence on the autonomous action of the workers who after the revolution must organize themselves into independent, self-governing Worker's Councils.
If the Minister of Education could veto an appointment at the (national) University of Leiden, he did not have that power at the (municipal) University of Amsterdam, where Pannekoek had already been appointed lecturer of Mathematics and Astronomy in 1918. Seven years later he became professor. Pannekoek founded the Astronomical Institute of the University of Amsterdam, and his longer monographs on astronomical subjects appeared in its publications between 1924 and 1949. He was dismissed by the German government of the Netherlands in 1941.
At Amsterdam, Pannekoek became one of the founders of astrophysics in the Netherlands. He investigated the structure of the Milky Way through detailed photometric investigations, publishing his results on the northern hemisphere in 1924-29, and on the southern hemisphere in 1949. He also did important work on the atmospheres of stars: the abundance of hydrogen in stellar atmospheres, the quantitative analysis of the flash spectrum during a solar eclipse, and the low mass of giant stars. From early in his career, Pannekoek was interested in the history of astronomy. His Wonderbouw der wereld (The Wonderful Construction of the Universe) introduced the reader to astronomy through its history, De groei van ons wereldbeeld (The Growth of Our World Picture), published in English as A History of Astronomy, was considered the most reliable general history of astronomy for three decades. With his wife, Pannekoek was active in literary and musical circles in Amsterdam. He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1925 and received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Residence

• Wageningen 
• Leiden 

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Member Afd. Natuurkunde 19-05-1925
• Nederlands Natuur- en Geneeskundig Congres
  Member [..1890]

Provenance

• Pannekoek, A., Verslagen Natuurkunde 69, 1960, p. 65-66 door C.J. Gorter; Jaarboek 1959/60, p. 328-330 door H. Zanstra.
• Biografie opgenomen in History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands
• Ledenlijst Vereeniging het Nederl. Natuur- en Geneesk. Congres (1890).

Publications

• Researches into the structure of the galaxy Year: . Pages: 21. (PDF format)
  
• Investigation of a galactic cloud in Aquila Year: . Pages: 16. (PDF format)
  
• A photographical method of research into the structure of the galaxy Year: . Pages: 7. (PDF format)
  
• Further Remarks on the Dark Nebulae in Taurus Year: . Pages: 4. (PDF format)
  
• The Origin of the Saros Year: . Pages: 14. (PDF format)
  
• Calculation of Dates in the Babylonian Tables of Planets Year: . Pages: 21. (PDF format)
  
• The luminosity of stars of different types of spectrum Year: . Pages: 16. (PDF format)
  
• The relation between the spectra and the colours of the stars Year: . Pages: 12. (PDF format)
  
• Untersuchungen über den Lichtwechsel von β Lyrae Year: . Pages: 41. (PDF format)
  
• The variability of the Pole-star Year: . Pages: 9. (PDF format)
  

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Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• mathematics
• astronomy

Biography:
N/A

Residence

• Paris 

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Member Afd. Natuurkunde 06-05-1885
• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Foreign Member Afd. Natuurkunde 01-03-1886

Provenance

• Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederlandse Wiskundigen. http://www.bwnw.nl/

Publications

N/A

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• astronomy

Biography:
N/A

Residence

• Tucson 

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Correspondent Afdeling Natuurkunde 19-05-1958

Provenance

• Bok, B.J., Jaarboek 1985, p. 193-198 door H. van Woerden.

Publications

N/A

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• cartography
• astronomy

Biography:
N/A

Residence

• Montauban 

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijk Instituut
  Correspondent, living abroad 19-10-1809

Provenance

• Ledenlijst in: De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008. Kaa, D.J. vam de, Roo, Y. de. KNAW Press (2008)

Publications

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• mathematics
• astronomy

Biography:
Mathematican, astronomer, astrologer, physician, cartographer and instrument maker. He was born in Dokkum, Friesland of poor parents, who died when he was young. He moved to Groningen and studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Leuven. While still a student, Frisius set up a workshop to produce globes and mathematical instruments. He made his first globe in 1527 together with Gaspar van der Heyden and Franciscus Monachus. Next to globes Frisius made astrolabes, cross staffs and astronomical rings in his workshop. His students included Gualterus Arsenius (who succeeded him after his death and who was also possibly his nephew), Gerardus Mercator, Johannes Stadius, John Dee, Andreas Vesalius and Rembert Dodoens.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden, Fries Museum Leeuwarden.

Residence

N/A

Occupation

• Mathematican, astronomer, astrologer, physician, cartographer and instrument maker 1531 - 1555, Leuven

Education

N/A

Membership

N/A

Provenance

• K. van Cleempoel, A catalogue raisonne of scientific instruments from the Louvain school, 1530-1600 (Turnhout 2002).
• E. Morpurgo, Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970).
• K. Cleempoel e.a., Scientific instruments in the sixteenth century : the Spanish court and the Louvain School : Fundacion Carlos de Amberes Madrid 26 November 1997-1 February 1998 (Madrid 1997).
• F. Gratien van Ortory, Bio-bibliographie de Gemma Frisius, fondateur de l'Ecole Belge de Géographie, de son fils Corneille et de ses neveux les Arsenius (Bruxelles 1920/ Amsterdam 1966).
• G. Kish, Medicina, Mensura, Mathematica : the life and works of Gemma Frisius, 1508-1555 (Minneapolis 1967).
• K. van Cleempoel en A. Turner, 'A Master-work of Mathematical Art from 16th Century Louvain', in: Bulletin of Scientific Instrument Society 66 (2000), 9.
• H. Michel, Recherches sur l'orgine de Gemma Frisius (Bruxelles 1952).

Publications

N/A

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• astronomy

Biography:
N/A

Residence

• London 

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Foreign Member Afd. Natuurkunde 11-05-1897

Provenance

• Ledenlijst in: De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008. Kaa, D.J. vam de, Roo, Y. de. KNAW Press (2008)

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• astronomy

Biography:
N/A

Residence

• Pasadena 

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Foreign Member Afd. Natuurkunde 18-05-1910

Provenance

• Hale, G.E., Verslagen Natuurkunde 47, 1938, p. 54 door J. van der Hoeve; Jaarboek 1938/39,p. 244/248 door A. Pannekoek.

Publications

N/A

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Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• astronomy

Biography:
N/A

Residence

• London 

Occupation

N/A

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Foreign Member Afd. Natuurkunde 01-05-1858

Provenance

• Ledenlijst in: De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008. Kaa, D.J. vam de, Roo, Y. de. KNAW Press (2008)

Publications

N/A

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• astronomy
• physics
• natural philosophy

Biography:
Merchant, director of 'Middelburgsche assurantieen commercie-compagnieën' and draftsman. As a dilettante Leendert Bomme practised astronomy, physics and natural philosophy. He wrote about these subjects in the essays of 'Zeeuwsch genootschap der wetenschappen'. Also "Directeur van de Commercie Compagnie"

Residence

• Middelburg 

Occupation

• draftsman 
• merchant 
• Directeur van de Commercie Compagnie 1780~
• draftsman 

Education

N/A

Membership

• Natuurkundig Gezelschap - Middelburg
  contributing member and secretary 1781 - 1788
• Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen
  ordinary member 6 nov 1777; corresponding member 19 nov 1777 06-11-1777 - 1788
• (Koninklijk) Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen
  member 26-07-1768 - 20-03-1788
• Natuur- en Geneeskundige Correspondentie Societeit in de Vereenigde Nederlanden - ’s HageMiddelburg
  secretary 1780
• Natuur- en Geneeskundige Correspondentie Societeit in de Vereenigde Nederlanden - ’s HageMiddelburg
  correspondent for meteorology 1782
• Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen - Haarlem
  Visitor 1780-06

Provenance

• 'Naamlijst der H.H. Leden van de Algemeene Natuur en Geneeskundige Correspondentie-Societeit', in: Verhandelingen van de Natuur- en Geneeskundige Correspondentie-Societeit ('s Gravenhage 1783).

Publications

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Wiki and VIAF

Wiki Data: Q52154234
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/282140639