Anton Deusing, in Latin Antonius Deusingius (October 15, 1612 – January 30, 1666) was a German

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, and

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.Joseph Thomas, Il Dizionario Universale di biografia e della mitologia 2009 CLU-HYS, Vol. II, Deusing Anton
pag. 775

Life

Born in

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in 1612, Deusing was an educated German physician, scholar of Oriental language,

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and

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. Between 1630 and 1637 he was enrolled at the University of Leiden, where he became a protégé of

Jacobus Golius Jacob Golius born Jacob van Gool (1596 – September 28, 1667) was an Orientalist and mathematician based at the University of Leiden in Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, ...

, the famous professor of Oriental Languages and Mathematics. In 1646 he became the first professor of

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at the

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. He wrote and published several works in

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. He died in

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in 1666.

Works

* * ''The Universal Theatre of Nature'' (1645) * ''Synopsis of Medicine'' (1649) * ''The Economy of the Animal System'' (1660) * * Deusing, Anton – Disquisitio physico-mathematica gemina, de vacuo itemque de attractione quibus probatur, nullum in rerum natura dari, vel posse dari vacuum , 1662 – BEIC 842057.jpg, ''Disquisitio physico-mathematica gemina, de vacuo itemque de attractione quibus probatur, nullum in rerum natura dari, vel posse dari vacuum'', 1662

References

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