Nicolaus Mulerius (25 December 1564,

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– 5 September 1630,

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Education and career

Mulerius was born Nicolaas Des Muliers, son of Pierre Des Muliers and Claudia Le Vettre. He grew up in Bruges, where he was taught by Jacobus Cruquius, among others. Mulerius first studied Philology, Philosophy and Theology and from 1582 he also studied Medicine and Mathematics at the

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, where Lipsius, Vulcanius, Snellius and Heurnius were teachers. In 1589 he married ''Christina Six'' and set up practice for 13 years in Harlingen. In 1603 he became leading physician in Groningen, in 1608 he took the position as school master of the

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gymnasium. From 1614 he was professor in medicine and mathematics at the Groningen University. From 1619 – 1621 and 1626 – 1630, he was in charge of the library of the University of Groningen.

Publications

In 1616, Nicolaus Mulerius published a textbook on

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reminiscent of the ''Sphere'' by

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. Also in 1616, he published the third, updated and annotated edition of

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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'' (English translation: ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'') is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) of the Polish Renaissance. The book, ...

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, written by Nicolaus Mulerius, was published, with the lives of other professors of Groningen, at Groningen in 1638, eight years after Mulerius' death.

Personal life

Mulerius married Christina Maria

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(1566-1645) in 1589 in

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. Among their children were (1599-1647), who would become professor at Groningen in physics and botany from 1628, and Carolus Mulerius (1601-1638) who wrote the first grammar of Spanish in Dutch.

Works

*Naturae tabulae Frisicae lunae-solares quadruplices, quibus accessere solis ..., 1611 *Institutionum astronomicarum libri duo, 1616 *Iudæorum annus lunæ-solaris: et Turc-Arabum annus merê lunaris,1630 *Naturae tabulae Frisicae lunae-solares quadruplices, quibus accessere solis ..., 1611 *Nicolai Mulerii ... Exercitationes in Apocalypsin s. Johannis apostoli, 1691

References

Sources

*Lynn Thorndike : History of Magic and Experimental Science

*Tabitta van Nouhuys: The Age of Two-Faced Janus: The Comets of 1577 and 1618 and the Decline of ... 199

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, Albert Van Helden, L. C. Palm: A History of Science in the Netherlands: Survey, Themes and Referenc

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