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Jan Cornets De Groot

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and studied arts and philosophy and following the high positions held by the Cornets de Groot family of Rotterdam who were a part of the Delft ruling class, he became alderman in 1589, a councillor and served as a mayor from 1591 to 1595. He became curator of the Leiden University where he also
46:(8 March 1554 – 3 May 1640) was a Dutch nobleman and scholar who conducted experiments in physics and explored natural philosophy. Along with 50:
he experimented on the time taken for lead of different weights to fall to the ground to prove Aristotle wrong in the famous
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and other scholars. He also took an interest in mathematics, translating some of the works of
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De Groot married Alida Borren in 1582 and they had five children including the jurist
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received a degree in law in 1596, and after 1617 became an advisor to the Count of
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Jan Cornets de Groot

Simon Stevin
Delft tower experiment
Delft
University of Leiden
University of Douai
Hohenlohe
Simon Stevin
Euclid
Ibn al-Haytham
Archimedes
Hugo Grotius
"Confronting Grotius' Legacy in an Age of Revolution: The Cornets de Groot Family in Rotterdam, 1748–98*"
doi
10.1093/ehr/ces282
ISSN
1477-4534
"Simon Stevin through the lens of his dedications"
doi
10.1111/1600-0498.12402
ISSN
0008-8994
S2CID
238765167
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1554 births
1640 deaths

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