Author: SWINDEN, J.H. VAN,
Title: Lijkrede op Pieter Nieuwland, op den 24. van wintermaand, 1794. Uitgesproken te Amsterdam in de maatschappij Felix Meritis, door Jan Hendrik van Swinden.
Description: Amsterdam, P. van den Hengst, 1795, viii,178 pages, no binding, attractive engraved frontispiece J. Kuyper/D. Vrijdag, obituary of Pieter Nieuwland (5 November 1764, Diemermeer - 14 November 1794, Leiden) was a Dutch nautical scientist, chemist, mathematician, and poet. During his life he was known as a child prodigy and has been called the Dutch Isaac Newton.

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