Burchard de Volder

Burchard de Volder ( born July 26, 1643 Amsterdam, † March 28, 1709 in Leiden ) was a Dutch philosopher, physician, physicist, astronomer and mathematician.

Life

The son of Justus de Volder and Mary Liesveld, grew up in a Mennoitischen environment. For her son, the parents had provided a medical career. Burchard had attended the Latin school and the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam. At the latter institution were Arnoldus Senguerdius and Alexander de Bie (1623-1690) his formative teachers who made ​​him familiar with the basics of the Philosophical Sciences. After he had on October 12, 1658 defended the dissertation disputatio mathematica de profunditate maris and on January 31, 1659 disputation de linea, quam globe by aërem describit, he continued his studies at the University of Utrecht, where he was on October 18, 1660 under Johannes de Bruin acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy. He continued his studies from the February 22, 1661 at the University of Leiden, where he was a student of Franciscus Sylvius and his doctorate with the treatise de Natura on July 3, 1664 as a doctor of medicine. He then returned as a doctor back to Amsterdam, dealt with the writings of René Descartes and belonged to the circle of the joy of Baruch de Spinoza. He changed in that time his confession and then a member of the Reformed congregation Remonstrant, for which church he supported the people financially worse off medically.

On February 7, 1670 he was professor of philosophy in Leiden and was from the November 8, 1670 Lectures on Physics. After graduating in 1674 a trip through England, he was from the January 26, 1675 also lectures on experimental physics. To this end, he had aroused among his students with clear physical experiments the attention and began a physical museum in the Leiden University to create. At about that time he had dealt with Otto von Guericke's investigations of atmospheric pressure, after which he invented a new air pump, which was later further developed by Wolferdus Senguerdius and Willem Jacob ' s Gravensande. After another trip to Paris in 1681, he was appointed on April 25, 1682 as a professor of mathematics, which he his introductory speech de conjungendi cum philosophices Matheseos studio held on June 15, 1682 and the associated director of the observatory in Leiden was. He had earned with the publication of the treatise De Coemotheoros by Christiaan Huygens in 1689 and 1703 as editor of his writings a further call in the former science world.

He had also held lectures on Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica and increased the holdings of the astronomical observatory in Leiden by numerous items. In his capacity as the Leiden university teacher, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the educational institution and had 1697/98 Rector of the Alma Mater. His rectorate he resigned with the speech de Rationi viribus et usu in scientus. On October 6, 1705 he was dismissed from his professorship mathematical for health reasons, but remained associated with the Leiden University. He died unmarried, to have left without leaving a will. Volder who corresponded with, among others, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, had one of his most important students in Herman Boerhaave.

Works

  • De Natura. Leiden 1664
  • Oratio habita in funere Siberti Coeman, J.U.D. et Professores. Leiden 1675
  • Dissertationes philosophicae de rerum naturalium principiis ut et de Aeris gravitate. Leiden 1681, ( Online)
  • Oratio de conjungendo cum philosophia mathesos studio. Leiden 1681
  • Dispotationes philosophicae contra omnes Atheos. Middelburg 1685
  • Exercitationes Academicae, quibus Renati Cartesu philosophia defendetur Petri adversus DANIELIS Huëtu censuram philosophiae Cartesianae. Amsterdam 1685
  • Dissertatio de brutorum operationibus. Leiden 1689
  • Oratio habita in funere Cl. viri Lucae bay. Med Professor D. et. Leiden 1689
  • Oratio de rationalis viribus et usu in scientiis. Leiden 1698 ( Online)
  • Dissertatio de carentia sensuum et cognitionis in brutis. Leiden 1698
  • Oratio, qua consentientibus Illustr. Acad. Curatoribus, urbisque Leidensis Conss. sese laboribus Academicis abdicavit. Habita A.D. XIX. Octobris anni 1705. Leiden 1705
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