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Willebrord Snellius (born
Willebrord Snel van Royen) (13 June 1580 – 30
October 1626) was a
Dutch astronomer and mathematician,
commonly known as Snell...
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Willibrord (Latin: Villibrordus; c. 658 – 7
November AD 739) was an Anglo-Saxon
missionary and saint,
known as the "Apostle to the Frisians" in the modern...
- Sint
Willebrord is a town in the muni****lity of
Rucphen in the Netherlands. It is also
known by the name 't
Heike which was the semi-official name up...
- triangles,
called triangulation networks. This
followed from the work of
Willebrord Snell in 1615–17, who
showed how a
point could be
located from the angles...
- and Etten-Leur,
south of the railway, but
without a train-station. Sint
Willebrord ('t Heike) (pop.: 9,320)
Sprundel (5,090)
Rucphen (4,580)
Zegge (2,210)...
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landfall was not Asia, but
rather a New World. In 1617 the
Dutch scientist Willebrord Snellius ****essed the cir****ference of the
Earth at 24,630
Roman miles...
- "Ludolphian number" in
Germany until the
early 20th century).
Dutch scientist Willebrord Snellius reached 34
digits in 1621, and
Austrian astronomer Christoph...
- the
otherworld land of Glæsisvellir.
According to Alcuin's Life of St.
Willebrord, the
saint visited an
island between Frisia and
Denmark that was sacred...
- the university's own mathematician.
However Rudolf Snellius and his son
Willebrord Snellius (the
formulator of Snell's law—who
replaced his father) both...
- of
Leiden is
famous for its many
discoveries including Snell's law (by
Willebrord Snellius) and the
famous Leyden jar, a
capacitor made from a gl**** jar...
