Levinus Hulsius
Appearance
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Levinus Hulsius or Levin Hulsius (1546 in Ghent, East-Flanders, Belgium; 1606 in Frankfurt am Main) He was a maker and dealer of fine scientific instruments; publisher and printer; linguist and lexicographer; wrote extensively on the construction of geometrical instruments. Although he was born in Flanders he lived and worked in the Netherlands and Germany.
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Sources
- 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
“DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE” [[PAR L’ABBÉ F. X. DE FELLER ]] TOME SEPTIÈME, Lille. Chez L. Lefort, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1832 Imprimerie de Guthenin Chalandre; Esquermise Nº 55