The lunar crater Snellius is named after Willebrord Snellius. The Royal Netherlands Navy has named three survey ships after Snellius, including a currently-serving...

Snellius may refer to: Rudolph Snellius (1546-1613), Dutch linguist and mathematician at the Universities of Marburg and Leiden Willebrord Snellius (1580-1626)...

Snellius is a lunar impact crater located near the southeast limb of the Moon. The rim of Snellius is heavily worn and eroded, with overlapping craterlets...

Rudolphus Snellius, was a Dutch linguist and mathematician who held appointments at the University of Marburg and the University of Leiden. Snellius was an...

HNLMS Snellius (Dutch: Hr.Ms. or Zr.Ms. Snellius) may refer to the following ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy that have been named after Willebrord Snellius:...

HNLMS Snellius (A802) is a hydrographic survey vessel of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The Snellius has a sister ship, HNLMS Luymes. Snellius is named after...

Leiden is famous for its many discoveries including Snell's law (by Willebrord Snellius) and the famous Leyden jar, a capacitor made from a glass jar, invented...

Shipbuilding. The current Snellius is the third hydrographic vessel with this name, being named after the mathematician Willebrord Snellius. Named after the hydrographer...

Snellius Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Снелий, romanized: lednik Snellius, IPA: ['lɛdnik 'snɛlij]) is the glacier extending 7 km in west–east direction and...

Rudolf Snellius—ensuring that Van Ceulen and Van Merwen were seen as inferior to the university's own mathematician. However Rudolf Snellius and his...

The Snellius Expedition was an oceanography expedition organized by the Dutch with emphasis on the fields of geology and oceanography in the waters of...

was not Asia, but rather a New World. In 1617 the Dutch scientist Willebrord Snellius assessed the circumference of the Earth at 24,630 Roman miles (24...

Robinson was buried. It is also the burial place of the scientist Willebrord Snellius. In around 1100 the site held the county chapel of the counts of...

with Kepler on this very subject. In 1621, the Dutch astronomer Willebrord Snellius (1580–1626)—Snell—derived a mathematically equivalent form, that...

after Willebrord Snellius, a Dutch scientist, also known as Descartes law of refraction (after René Descartes) was discovered by Ibn Sahl. the Snellius–Pothenot...

priest, physician and mineralogist (born c. 1550) October 30 – Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction...

astronomer (died 1637) Peter Crüger, German polymath (died 1639) Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction...

in the Netherlands. Established in 1633 to house the quadrant of Willebrord Snellius, it is the oldest operating university observatory in the world,...

mathematicians Thomas Harriot and Isaac Newton, and the Dutch physicist Willebrord Snellius, the French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal all...

Arminius became acquainted with the mathematician Rudolph Snellius, also from Oudewater. Snellius brought Arminius to Marburg and enabled him to study at...

Robert Burton publishes his treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy. Willebrord Snellius formulates Snell's law on refraction. A simple microscope is developed...

Galilean moons of Jupiter 1613 – Galileo Galilei: Inertia 1621 – Willebrord Snellius: Snell's law 1632 – Galileo Galilei: The Galilean principle (the...

Dutch cartographer Jan Leeghwater (1575–1650), hydraulic engineer Willebrord Snellius (1580–1626), Dutch astronomer and mathematician Hugo Grotius (1583–1645)...

modern optics (though the law of refraction is conspicuously absent). Willebrord Snellius (1580–1626) found the mathematical law of refraction, now known as...

1620: Appearance of the first compound microscopes in Europe. 1628: Willebrord Snellius: the law of refraction also known as Snell's law. 1628: William Harvey:...

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which the distance to a point could be deduced. Dutch mathematician Willebrord Snellius (a.k.a. Snel van Royen) introduced the modern systematic use of triangulation...

Optica is generally recognized as the foundation of modern optics. Willebrord Snellius found the mathematical law of refraction, now known as Snell's law...

path between the two points. In Louvain, in 1634 (by which time Willebrord Snellius had rediscovered Ibn Sahl's law, and Descartes had derived it but...

Killigrew, English courtier, politician, ambassador and knight (d. 1633) Willebrord Snellius, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1626) Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky...