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    Nicolaas Hartsoeker (26 March 1656 – 10 December 1725) was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who invented the screw-barrel simple microscope c. 1694...
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  • homunculus was later used in the discussion of conception and birth. Nicolas Hartsoeker postulated the existence of animalcules in the semen of humans and...
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    recently completed in 1672. He introduced Nicolaas Hartsoeker to French scientists such as Nicolas Malebranche and Giovanni Cassini in 1678. The young...
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    Andry ... with letters to the author on this subject from M. Nicholas Hartsoeker at Amsterdam, and M. George Baglivi at Rome. London: Printed for H. Rhodes...
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    structure and, for human sperm, a soul. (Friedman 79) In 1694, Nicolaas Hartsoeker, in his Essai de Dioptrique concerning things large and small that could...
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    Carton Dancourt, French dramatist, actor (b. 1661) December 10 – Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Dutch mathematician and physicist (b. 1656) date unknown Giuseppe Mazzuoli...
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  • prism Nicola Cabibbo Nicola Scafetta Nicolaas Bloembergen Nicolaas Hartsoeker Nicolae Filip Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen Nicolas-Philippe Ledru Nicolas Clément...
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  • biotech entrepreneur Nicolaas Everaerts (1461–1532), Dutch jurist Nicolaas Hartsoeker (1656–1725), Dutch mathematician, physicist, and microscopist Nicolaas...
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    Domain (d. 1678) March 26 – Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Dutch mathematician and physicist (d. 1725) March 30 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)...
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    foreign associates were created. Leibniz, Domenico Guglielmini (1655—1710), Hartsoeker, and E. W. Tschirnhaus were appointed on 4 February, James Bernoulli and...
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    book on Peruvian silver mines in Potosí. Like Robert Boyle and Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Van Leeuwenhoek was interested in dried cochineal, trying to find out...
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    Domain (d. 1678) March 26 – Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Dutch mathematician and physicist (d. 1725) March 30 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)...
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  • Carton Dancourt, French dramatist, actor (b. 1661) December 10 – Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Dutch mathematician and physicist (b. 1656) date unknown Giuseppe Mazzuoli...
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