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Ridders, Priesters en Predikanten in Schelluinen
de geschiedenis van een commanderij van de ridderlijke Duitsche orde, Balije van Utrecht
2013 || Hardcover || Huib Zuidervaart || Verloren b.v., uitgeverij
De Duitsche Orde werd in 1190 in Jeruzalem opgericht om een lokaal ziekenhuis te beschermen. Al snel groeide de orde echter uit tot een ridderorde met allure. In 1219 wisten orderidders zich te onderscheiden bij het beleg van Damiate in Egypte. Enige getuigen uit de Lage Landen schonken de orde vervolgens landerijen in hun thuisland. Zo kreeg de Duitsche Orde ook voet aan de grond in het dorp Schelluinen, vlakbij Gorinchem. De hier gestichte commanderij is de vroegste vestiging van de nog ste...
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Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World
The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 2: Transcription and English Translation of Marggrafe’s Astronomical Observations
2022 || Paperback || Oscar Matsuura e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the support Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, then governor-general of colonial Dutch Brazil, he built in Recife the first European-style astr...
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Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World
The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 1: Life, Work and Legacy
2022 || Hardcover || Huib Zuidervaart e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the support Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, then governor-general of colonial Dutch Brazil, he built in Recife the first European-style astr...