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    In 1656, Nicolaes went with his father to England, where he was introduced to Oliver Cromwell's children. In March 1662, Nicolaes Witsen held a disputation...
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  • Witsen is a Dutch surname and may refer to: Members of the Witsen family: Cornelis Jan Witsen Nicolaes Witsen Willem Witsen 10653 Witsen, asteroid This...
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    Witsen (also spelled Witzen) is a patrician family of Amsterdam. Its most notable member was the politician and scholar Nicolaes Witsen, but many other...
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    Nicolaes Tulp (9 October 1593 – 12 September 1674) was a Dutch surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam. Tulp was well known for his upstanding moral character and...
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    brought to Western Europe twenty years later by the Dutch statesman Nicolaes Witsen, who reported his stay and journeys among the Tungusic- and Samoyedic-speaking...
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    collection of Doctor Nicolaes Witsen, mayor of Amsterdam and director of the East Indies society, and that of Mr. Jonas Witsen, secretary of Amsterdam...
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  • (Netherlands, 1587–1652) Nicolaes Visscher I (Netherlands, 1618–1679) Frederik de Wit (Netherlands, 1610/16–1698) Nicolaes Witsen (Netherlands, 1641–1717)...
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  • Nicolaes is a given name that is spelled Nicolaas in modern Dutch. Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1620–1683), Dutch Golden Age painter Nicolaes Boddingius...
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    Donald (2013). Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia. Reaktion Books. Witsen, Nicolaes (2013). Noord en Oost Tartarye. Universali. Kakheti at Wikipedia's...
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    step in Europeans' wresting the means of production was effected by Nicolaes Witsen, the enterprising burgomaster of Amsterdam and member of the governing...
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    the Dutch explorer Nicolaes Witsen, who wrote an account of his travels among Samoyedic- and Tungusic-speaking peoples in 1692. Witsen labeled the illustration...
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    whom Cornelis Jan Witsen and his son Nicolaes Witsen were members. His parents were Jonas Jan Witsen and Jacoba Elisabeth Bonekamp. Witsen studied at academies...
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  • Machavariani 1892 ; the alphabet of Chochua 1909. the alphabet of Nicolaes Witsen 1897 Abkhaz alphabet of von Uslar 1862. Abkhaz alphabet of Gulia and...
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  • central figure in 17th-century court case and daughter of Delft's mayor Nicolaes Witsen (1641–1717), Dutch statesman who was mayor of Amsterdam thirteen times...
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    Jan Witsen (baptised 8 September 1605 – 12 March 1669, Amsterdam) was a counsellor and mayor of the city of Amsterdam. He was the father of Nicolaes Witsen...
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    ПОДАРКОВ. Marion Peters, De wijze koopman. Het wereldwijde onderzoek van Nicolaes Witsen (1641–1717), burgemeester en VOC-bewindhebber van Amsterdam (Amsterdam...
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    the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae. Dutch politician and cartographer Nicolaes Witsen describes the south west Australian coast in a detailed description...
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  • recognized and was visited by diplomats of France and the Netherlands, like Nicolaes Witsen. (in Polish) Knowledge and Life – A Different Side of History at the...
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    van Verlatinge (Act of Abjuration), with a text on shipbuilding by Nicolaes Witsen and the Idea Physicæ of David van Goorle – 25:29 Part 2 ("Hadewijch"...
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    of Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic languages is from the 1692 work of Nicolaes Witsen which may be based on a 1661 work of Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, Genealogy...
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    Marion Peters (2010) De wijze koopman, Het wereldwijde onderzoek van Nicolaes Witsen (1641–1717), burgemeester en VOC-bewindhebber van Amsterdam. p. 139...
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  • geneticist Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923), physicist Nicolaes Witsen (1641–1717), statesman, shipbuilder, geographer and cartographer Hendrik...
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    Schrieke Part One. The Hague: W. van Hoeve. Hoving, A.J. (2012). Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age. Texas A&M University Press...
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  • unrelated type of boat called "pram". Drawing of a 17th-century pram by Nicolaes Witsen A pram in use, cultural heritage collection, Zuiderzee Museum Veense...
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    Marion Peters, De wijze koopman. Het wereldwijde onderzoek van Nicolaes Witsen (1641-1717), burgemeester en VOC-bewindhebber van Amsterdam (Amsterdam...
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    Western accounts of Tungusic languages came from the Dutch traveler Nicolaes Witsen, who published in the Dutch language a book, Noord en Oost Tartarye...
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    attention of many foreign dignitaries. In 1697, Peter the Great and Nicolaes Witsen visited Ruysch who had all the specimens exposed in five rooms, on...
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    year. Following a second voyage, in 1694, he was asked, on request of Nicolaes Witsen, to mount an expedition to search for the Ridderschap van Holland,...
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    1722) May – Juan Núñez de la Peña, Spanish historian (d. 1721) May 8 – Nicolaes Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1717) May 16 – Dudley North, English...
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    Great [ru]; others belonged to the lost well-known private collection of Nicolaes Witsen. The Ingala Valley is located 75 km south of Tyumen, at the mouth of...
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