The Leiden choirbooks are six volumes of polyphonic renaissance music of the Franco-Flemish school preserved in the Pieterskerk, Leiden.
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He was a writer-in-residence at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden from February through October 2001, courtesy of Poets of All Nations Foundation.
Several have tried to restore the text to discover Apollonius's solution, among them Snellius (Willebrord Snell, Leiden, 1698); Alexander Anderson of Aberdeen, in the supplement to his Apollonius Redivivus (Paris, 1612); and Robert Simson in his Opera quaedam reliqua (Glasgow, 1776), by far the best attempt.
Balaam and the Ass is a 1626 painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, dating from his time in Leiden and now in the Musée Cognacq-Jay in Paris.
Having finished his studies at Leiden, he went to Paris, where, under the instruction of Sebastien Vaillant (1669–1722), Jacob Winslow (1669–1760) and others, he devoted himself especially to anatomy and botany.
The Society also offers students a chance to go on foreign exchange trips each year, currently through the Leiden Exchange (with Leiden University) and the Paris Exchange (with the University of Paris).
Dirk ter Haar (Dr., B.Sc., M.Sc., MA, D.Sc., FRSE) studied physics at Leiden University, was research fellow of Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, and received his Ph.D. in Leiden from Hendrik Kramers for a dissertation on the origin of the solar system.
Lodewijk Cornelis Josephus Andreas van Meeuwen and scion of the catholic noble family Van Meeuwen (titled as a jonkheer), studied law at the university of Leiden and was a lawyer in 's-Hertogenbosch.
Friedrich Spanheim the elder (January 1, 1600, Amberg – May 14, 1649, Leiden) was a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden.
Born in Liebstadt in the Electorate of Saxony, Marcgrave studied botany, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine in Germany and Switzerland until 1636 when he journeyed to Leiden in the Netherlands.
George K. Miley, physicist, professor of astronomy at Leiden University, see Meanings of minor planet names: 6001–6500
In June 1970 in the Netherlands a group called Kabouters won 5 of the 45 seats on the Amsterdam Gemeenteraad (City Council), as well as two seats each on councils in The Hague and Leeuwarden and one seat apiece in Arnhem, Alkmaar and Leiden.
Thence he went over to Paris to attend the Hôtel-Dieu, and subsequently to Leyden, where he studied under Herman Boerhaave, and took his degree of M.D., but his name is omitted from the Album Studiosorum Academiæ Lugd. Bat., printed in 1875.
Henry Habib is a member of the advisory board of the Werkgroep Caraïbische Letteren (Caribbean Study group of Arts) of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (Society of Dutch Literature) in Leiden.
Together with cloned cows named Holly and Belle, he lived out his retirement at Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden.
Hieronymus de Bosch or Jeronimo de Bosch (23 March 1740, Amsterdam – 1 June 1811, Leiden) was a Latin poet and notable scholar from the Netherlands.
After a visit to Cambridge to interact with John von Neumann (1934-5) on the links between classical and quantum mechanics, and a checkered career working with Frits Zernike in Groningen, then Leiden, the Hague, De Bilt, and several addresses in the North of Holland during World War II, he earned his Ph.D. degree in 1946, under the tutelage of Léon Rosenfeld at Utrecht University.
Now it has spread to 17 other cities of Switzerland, 9 in Germany and one in London (United Kingdom), Trondheim (Norway), Prague (Czech Republic), Leiden (The Netherlands) and Rome (Italy).
Early steps towards the establishment of ISJR were taken when the social psychologist Melvin J. Lerner accepted the Cleveringa Chair at the University of Leiden in 1984.
Anatome corporis humani: plurimis novis inventis intructa, 1672, republished 1679; published in Leiden, Lyon and Genève: English translation The Anatomy of Human Bodies by William Salmon appeared in 1689, reprinted in 1694; French translation L' anatomie du corps humain published in 1695 in Lyon
After observing the 'fire engine' on display at Leiden University, he wrote to James Watt and Matthew Boulton and had his own 'fire machine', the first steam engine for a garden, installed on the high wooded grounds of his summer home.
In 1670, Böckelmann moved to teach at Leiden, where he had lasting influence by introducing the new methodus compendiarium - a teaching method based no longer on the Corpus Iuris Civilis itself, but on shorter summaries.
Originally a shoemaker by trade, he was active on the book-trading market from 1680 in and around Holborn, travelling to Haarlem, Leiden, and Amsterdam on this business and aiding such collectors as John Moore, Robert and Edward Harley, Sir Hans Sloane, Samuel Pepys and John Woodward.
Frans van Mieris the Younger, Groot Charterboek der Graven van Holland, Leiden, 1753
James T. Monroe, Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship. Sixteenth century to the present (Leiden: E.J.Brill 1970), at Chapter VI: "Julián Ribera y Tarragó" (pages 151-173).
Johann Karl Ludwig Martin (November 24, 1851, Jever (Ostfriesland) - November 14, 1942, Leiden) was a German geologist.
The LUMC is located right next to Leiden Central Railway Station.
At the time, Delft, then a Polytechnic, did not have the right to confer doctorates, so Leiden did this for them.
Born in Leiden, Zonneveld played in the Netherlands and Cyprus for Go Ahead Eagles, NEC, NAC Breda, PSV, FC Groningen and AEL Limassol.
sumatrana, Teijsmann 535, consists of female specimens, three of which are deposited at the Bogor Botanical Gardens (formerly the Herbarium of the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens), as well as one at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands in Leiden and one at the herbarium of Utrecht University.
This manuscript claimed that it was originally written in Spanish by Luisa Sigea de Velasco, an erudite poetess and maid of honor at the court of Lisbon and was then translated into Latin by Jean or Johannes Meursius, a humanist born in Leiden, Holland in 1613.
Paintings of the front and rear views of the Colombo hospital, done in 1771 by a Dutch artist--presumably Johannes Rach--are preserved in the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkekunde at Leiden, in the Netherlands.
Since its arrival in the Netherlands it has been on display only twice; the most recent time was from 19 December 2008 until 23 February 2009 in the National Museum of Natural History "Naturalis" in Leiden, the Netherlands.
It is also important to state here that the surgeon who performed Verheyen's amputation in Leiden had been a student of the anatomist Frederik Ruysch and on the patient's insistence had preserved his amputated leg for possible further study at a later date.
The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists Nieuwland as being the doctoral advisor of one student at Leiden, Simon Speijert van der Eyk, through whom he has over 600 academic descendants.
Pieter van Kouwenhoorn aka Pieter Kouwenhoorn (1599 Haarlem - c21 May 1654 Leiden) (fl.1620s-1630s) was a Dutch botanical illustrator.
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Kouwenhoorn was a glass painter working in Haarlem and Leiden in the Netherlands, and was one of the teachers of the painter Gerard Dou (1613-1675) and Hendrick Jansz.
The Separatists were also still not free from the persecutions of the English Crown; in 1618, after William Brewster published comments highly critical of the King of England and the Anglican Church, English authorities came to Leiden to arrest him.
It is not to be confused with the "Leiden St Louis Psalter", (Latin, Parchment, 185 folios, 24,5 x 17,7 cm. 23 miniatures. Historiated initials. Northern England, 1190-1200. Leiden, University Library: BPL 76A) originally produced for Geoffrey Plantagenet, Archbishop of York, probably in northern England in the 1190s.
In 1954 he spent five months in Leiden identifying the collection of Lepcha manuscripts at the National Museum of Ethnology, where he had already made a list of the titles of Tibetan xylographs and manuscripts during a seven month stay in 1953.
In 1983 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title The Meaning of Mother Goose.
In 1946 he acted as honorary representative to Sir Winston Churchill in Leiden.
He worked for the "National Institute for Fisheries Research" (Rijks Instituut voor Visserij Onderzoek, RIVO) at the Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies, the former "Geological Survey" (Rijks Geologische Dienst), the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie) and the Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI) in Amsterdam.
In 1734, the Leiden-based physician Johann Bachstrom published a book on scurvy in which he stated that "scurvy is solely owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food, and greens; which is alone the primary cause of the disease" and urged the use of fresh fruit and vegetables as a cure.
Tanya Bröring (born in Leiden, 25 December 1984) is a Dutch basketball point guard, currently playing for Toyota Recreativo Conquero in the Spanish Women's League.
Until 1917 she was home schooled, after that she attended the Gymnasium in Leiden and passed the final exams in 1922.
After stints in the USA at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at Caltech, he returned to the Netherlands in 1990 to become Professor of Theoretical Astronomy at Leiden.
#An IASS newsletter informs that the proceedings of the Leiden Conference in several volumes (Brill, Leiden, 1990–92); the Proceedings of the Helsinki and Edinburgh Conferences are in the process of publication by Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi.