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    The lunar crater Snellius is named after Willebrord Snellius. The Royal Netherlands Navy has named three survey ships after Snellius, including a currently-serving...
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  • Snellius may refer to: Rudolph Snellius (1546-1613), Dutch linguist and mathematician at the Universities of Marburg and Leiden Willebrord Snellius (1580-1626)...
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    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...
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    Rudolphus Snellius, was a Dutch linguist and mathematician who held appointments at the University of Marburg and the University of Leiden. Snellius was an...
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    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...
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    Shipbuilding. The current Snellius is the third hydrographic vessel with this name, being named after the mathematician Willebrord Snellius. Named after the hydrographer...
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    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...
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  • 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:...
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    Snellius Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Снелий, romanized: lednik Snellius, IPA: ['lɛdnik 'snɛlij]) is the glacier extending 7 km in west–east direction and...
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    Rudolf Snellius—ensuring that Van Ceulen and Van Merwen were seen as inferior to the university's own mathematician. However Rudolf Snellius and his...
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    The Snellius Expedition was an oceanography expedition organized by the Dutch with emphasis on the fields of geology and oceanography in the waters of...
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    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...
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    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...
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    with Kepler on this very subject. In 1621, the Dutch astronomer Willebrord Snellius (1580–1626)—Snell—derived a mathematically equivalent form, that...
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    influenced, among other persons, Dutch astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius; Adriaan Metius, the geometer and astronomer from Holland; and the...
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    in the Netherlands. Established in 1633 to house the quadrant of Willebrord Snellius, it is the oldest operating university observatory in the world,...
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  • after Willebrord Snellius, a Dutch scientist, also known as Descartes law of refraction (after René Descartes) was discovered by Ibn Sahl. the Snellius–Pothenot...
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  • astronomer (died 1637) Peter Crüger, German polymath (died 1639) Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction...
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  • priest, physician and mineralogist (born c. 1550) October 30 – Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction...
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    mathematicians Thomas Harriot and Isaac Newton, and the Dutch physicist Willebrord Snellius, the French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal all...
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    could unite around core tenets. The astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius used Ramist philosophy in an effort to encourage his students to...
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  • Galilean moons of Jupiter 1613 – Galileo Galilei: Inertia 1621 – Willebrord Snellius: Snell's law 1632 – Galileo Galilei: The Galilean principle (the...
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    Optica is generally recognized as the foundation of modern optics. Willebrord Snellius found the mathematical law of refraction, now known as Snell's law...
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    Deep was found in 1929 by the 204-foot 1928 HMS Willebrord Snelliu (named after Willebrord Snellius) using an echo sounder on a Dutch oceanographic expedition...
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  • Dutch cartographer Jan Leeghwater (1575–1650), hydraulic engineer Willebrord Snellius (1580–1626), Dutch astronomer and mathematician Hugo Grotius (1583–1645)...
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    modern optics (though the law of refraction is conspicuously absent). Willebrord Snellius (1580–1626) found the mathematical law of refraction, now known as...
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  • Smurfing. Hermann Snellen, Dutch ophthmalmologist – Snellen chart Willebrord Snellius, Dutch astronomer and mathematicianc – Snell's law Socrates, Greek...
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    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...
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  • Nichinan AGS Suma AGS Futami Jaiyq [ru] (2008–) HNLMS Willebrord Snellius (1929-1942) HNLMS Snellius (A907) (1952-1972) HNLMS Luymes (A902) (1952-1973)...
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    Killigrew, English courtier, politician, ambassador and knight (d. 1633) Willebrord Snellius, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1626) Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky...
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