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Heuraet, Hendrik van
- 1. Dates
- Born: Haarlem, 1633
- Died: c. 1660
- Dateinfo: Death Uncertain
- Lifespan: 27
- 2. Father
- Occupation: No Information
- No information on financial status.
- 3. Nationality
- Birth: Dutch
- Career: Dutch
- Death: Dutch
- 4. Education
- Schooling: Leiden, Saumur
- One of the few secure facts about Heuraet is that he enrolled in Leiden in March 1653 to study medicine. He also studied mathematics under Schooten with Huygens and Hudde.
- In 1658 we know that he was at the Protestant university in Saumur for a time.
- Although one seems probable, there is no mention of a degree.
- 5. Religion
- Affiliation: Calvinist assumed
- 6. Scientific Disciplines
- Primary: Mathematics
- His only published work concerned the rectification of curves, in a letter to Schooten that was published in the second edition of Descartes's Geometria.
- The last mention of Heuraet is found in a letter of Huygens of December 1659.
- 7. Means of Support
- Primary: Unknown
- 8. Patronage
- Type: None
- 9. Technological Involvement
- Type: None
- 10. Scientific Societies
- Memberships: None
- Sources
- Nieuw Nederlandsch Biographisch Woordenboek.
- There is precious little information about Heuraet.
- Compiled by:
- Richard S. Westfall
- Department of History and Philosophy of Science
- Indiana University
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