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Johannes (van Waveren) Hudde (23 April 1628 – 15 April 1704) was a burgomaster (mayor) of Amsterdam between 1672 – 1703, a mathematician and governor of the Dutch East India Company. As a "burgemeester" of Amsterdam he ordered that the city canals should be flushed at high tide and that the polluted water of the town "secreten" should be ...
- Frans van Schooten
- 23 April 1628, Amsterdam
Apr 15, 2015 · Johann Hudde's father was Gerrit Hudde (1595-1647) who was a well-off merchant who served as an Amsterdam member on the governing body of the Dutch East India Company from 1632. Johann's mother was Maria Jonas de Witsen. From around 1648 Johann attended the University of Leiden where he studied law. However he was introduced to advanced ...
2018. Abstract: Although Antoni van Leeuwenhoek has rightly earned his reputation as the founder of microbiology and the maker of fine simple microscopes, it was a contemporaneous and largely unknown mid-17th century politician whose lenses prompted van Leeuwenhoek's work. In fact, Johannes Hudde's flameworked globular lenses inspired numerous ...
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Johannes Hudde, Councilor and former alder-man of the city of Amsterdam, for which [ser-vice] we are obliged to publicly praise the afore - mentioned lord.3 Baruch de Spinoza (1632–1677), who proba - bly began to grind lenses by 1661, corresponded a few years later with Hudde about optics, and likely also made use of Hudde’s lenses.4 Chris-
Apr 19, 2024 · April 15, 1704, Amsterdam (aged 75) Johan van Waveren Hudde (born April 23, 1628, Amsterdam, Neth.—died April 15, 1704, Amsterdam) was a Dutch mathematician and statesman who promoted Cartesian geometry and philosophy in Holland and contributed to the theory of equations. Born of a patrician family, Hudde served for some 30 years as ...
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Johannes Hudde was a burgomaster (mayor) of Amsterdam between 1672–1703, a mathematician and governor of the Dutch East India Company. Hudde was a brilliant mathematician who contributed to Van Schooten’s the second edition (1659) of Descartes' Geometria. He had a keen interest in theoretical and practical optics and collaborated with ...
Johannes (Joan, Joannes) Hudde ( Amsterdam, 23 april 1628 - aldaar, 15 april 1704) was een Nederlands wiskundige, politicus en jurist. Vanaf 1663 bekleedde Hudde ambtelijke functies in Amsterdam: in 1667 werd hij lid van de vroedschap. Hij was tussen 1672 tot 1703 negentien keer burgemeester van Amsterdam, zo vaak als de regeling toeliet.
