Henricus Aeneae

Henricus Aeneae ( born August 19, 1743 Workum, Gaasterlân - Sleat, † November 1, 1810 in 's Gravenhage ) was a Dutch scientist.

The son of the Minister Eduard Schultetus Aenee attended the Latin school in Leeuwarden and from 1761 onwards the College of Franeker, where he studied mathematics and physics at the professors Nicolaas Ypeij and Anthony Brugmans. On the advice of the rector of the Latin school, he Latinized his name. At Jan Pieters van der Bildt and Wytze Foppes he learned the construction of binoculars and telescopes.

After his marriage he began in 1767 in Amsterdam to teach mathematics. Among his pupils was Pieter Nieuwland. Two years later he was promoted to Leyden to master in the liberal arts and doctor of philosophy. In 1778 he was made an honorary member of the Society Felix Meritis.

Immediately after the revolution of 1795 he was member of a committee of the Navy and checked the warships.

In 1798 he accompanied Jean Henri van Swinden to Paris as members of the Commission for determining the basis of the metric system.

Publications

• Description and use of a London to verfertigten of Hernn G. Adams Tellurium; 1789
• Andwoorden op de Nieuwe Reken competent vraagen van H. Aeneae, voorkomende in deszelfs Rekenboek voor de Nederlandsche jeugd; 1804