Pieter Nieuwland
Pieter Nieuwland ( born November 5, 1764 in Diemer Sea at Amsterdam, † November 24, 1794 in Leiden ) was a Dutch poet, mathematician, and naturalist.
Life
His father was a well-read as a carpenter, skilled in mathematics and taught his son up to the age of eleven. When his mother engravings by Jan Luiken showed him at the age of three years, and read to him the 50 sechsfüßigen verses, he could play them. As the computational Master Henricus Aeneae asked him at the age of eight years if he could determine the spatial content of a statue, he wanted a piece of wood from which this statue is made , make it into a cube and compare the weights.
At the age of eleven he was taken for four years in Amsterdam in the House of Lords Bernhardus and Jeronimo de Bosch, where he learned Latin and Greek. From 1777 he attended the Atheneum Illustre in Amsterdam, where he learned philosophy and mathematics at Herman Tollius literature and Daniel Wyttenbach. From September 1784 to 1785 he studied natural philosophy and mathematics at the Universities of Leyden and Amsterdam, with Prof. Jean Henri van Swinden. Later he was also involved in astronomy.
In 1787 he was chosen by the Utrechtschen country stands as the successor of Prof. Johann Friedrich Hennert. This reputation but was undone, and he was appointed by the magistrate to Amsterdame lecturer of mathematics, Star and shipping customer. In 1793 he published his work Zeevaardkunde ( at Georg Hulst van Keulen ).
Among his published poems be Orion (1788 ) made him immortal in Holland.
Cornelis Douwes invention for determining the latitude measured from two altitudes of the sun, he improved, determined the most beneficial times for the measurement and the possible error. In 1789 he reported about it de la Lande in Paris. After the death of his wife in 1792 he spent two months in Gotha with Franz Xaver von Zach and discussed the latitude measurement.
At the age of 22, he was, next to Jean Henri van Swinden and van Keulen, a member of the Commission, which had the task to determine the " length sea " and to improve the charts. In 1789 he became a member of the learned society Felix Meritis who was doing chemical analysis.
He explore the diffraction of the ecliptic and these calculations Johann Elert Bode in 1793 published his " Astronomical yearbooks " and he examined the use of the compass, the van le Guin had sent to the Admiralty.
In July 1793, he was appointed as the successor of Christiaan Hendrik Women ( 1754-1793 ), a professor of natural philosophy, astronomy and mathematics at the University of Leiden.