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    Hendrik van Heuraet (1633, Haarlem - 1660?, Leiden) was a Dutch mathematician also known as Henrici van Heuraet. He is noted as one of the founders of...
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    science. Schooten and his students including Hudde, Johan de Witt and Hendrik van Heuraet published a Latin translation of La Geometrie in 1659. Each of the...
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  • Hendrik van Heuraet (1633–1660?), Dutch mathematician Hendrik Hondius I (1573–1650), Flemish-born Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher Hendrik Hondius...
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    arc length was independently discovered by Hendrik van Heuraet and Pierre de Fermat. In 1659 van Heuraet published a construction showing that the problem...
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  • discovered by Hendrik van Heuraet in 1659. In 1673 Wallis asserted that Christiaan Huyghens, who was advancing his own claim to have influenced Heuraet, was also...
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  • Descartes, René; Beaune, Florimond de; Schooten, Frans van; Hudde, Johannes; Heuraet, Hendrik van. Renati Des-Cartes Geometria. 2nd ed. vol. 1. (in Latin)...
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