Science
- Jan Leeghwater (1575–1650) hydraulic engineer
- Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) laid the foundations for international law
- René Descartes French philosopher lived in Holland from 1628 till 1649.
- Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) was a famous mathematician, physicist and astronomer
- Simon Stevin (1548–1620), mathematician and engineer, credited for being the first to accept negative numbers as a solution to equations, and for having laid the basic laws of modern hydrostatics.
- Baruch de Spinoza (1632–1677) philosopher
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek who invented or greatly improved the microscope (opinions differ) and was the first to methodically study microscopic life, thus laying the foundations for the field of cell biology.
- Nicolaes Tulp (1593–1674) Doctor, Magistrate, and Mayor of Amsterdam, wrote a book on diseases and human & animal anatomy
- Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550 – ca. 1600) Inventor of the sawmill
- Govert Bidloo (1649–1713) physician, anatomist and author who wrote the anatomical atlas Anatomia Humani Corporis
- Frederik de Wit (1630–1706) engraver, cartographer and publisher
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecution of science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“It is impossible to dissociate language from science or science from language, because every natural science always involves three things: the sequence of phenomena on which the science is based; the abstract concepts which call these phenomena to mind; and the words in which the concepts are expressed. To call forth a concept, a word is needed; to portray a phenomenon, a concept is needed. All three mirror one and the same reality.”
—Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794)
“We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)