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Levinus Hulsius

Summary

Levinus Hulsius (1550 – 1606) was a maker and dealer of fine scientific instruments; publisher and printer; linguist and lexicographer; wrote extensively on the construction of geometrical instruments. Although he was born in Flanders he lived and worked in the Netherlands and Germany.

Levinus Hulsius
Born1550 Edit this on Wikidata
Ghent Edit this on Wikidata
Died13 March 1606 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 55–56)
Frankfurt Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationWriter, publisher, instrument maker, notary, printer Edit this on Wikidata
Print by Levinus Hulsius, 1596
Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum, 1605

Works edit

  • Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum (in Latin). Vol. 1. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.
  • Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.
  • Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum (in Latin). Vol. 3. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.

Sources edit

  • F.X. de Feller (1818). "HULSIUS (Levinus)". Dictionnaire historique, ou Histoire abrégée (in French). Vol. 4. Paris & Lyon. p. 675.
  • Georg Wolfgang Karl Lochner (1881), "Hulsius, Levin", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 13, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 335
  • Josef Benzing (1974), "Hulsius (van Hülsen), Levin", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 10, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 30; (full text online)
  • Mathematics from the birth of numbers, Jan Gullberg, W. W. Norton & Company; 1st ed edition (October 1997), 1093 pages ISBN 0-393-04002-X ISBN 978-0-393-04002-9
  • Ralf Kern: "Wissenschaftliche Instrumente in Ihrer Zeit". Band 2: "Vom Compendium zum Einzelinstrument". Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-866-6