Levinus Hulsius
Belgian science writer
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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 Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire.
Born1550 
Died13 March 1606 (aged 55–56)
(aged 55–56)
Works
- 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
- 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). . 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
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