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    Pieter van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692 – 19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist. He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, where he held...
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    portrait to the right, shows him pointing to an early pyrometer from Pieter van Musschenbroeck with pumps in the background. The triennial International Steven...
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    Joannes Conradus Rücker 1742–1743 Adriaan van Royen 1743–1744 Pieter van Musschenbroeck 1744–1745 Johan van den Honert 1745–1746 Gerlach Scheltinga 1746–1747...
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    Picart, Jakob Gronovius, Herman Boerhaave, Johannes Musschenbroeck (father of the scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek), and Frederick Ruysch. In England he...
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    Boerhaave, physicist Willem 's Gravesande and instrument-maker Jan van Musschenbroeck. On display are large globes and a tiny pocket globe (all ~1700),...
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    other hand he received a severe electric shock. In much the same way Musschenbroeck assisted by Cunaens received a more severe shock from a somewhat similar...
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