Zr.Ms. Snellius, Netherlands Navy: Difference between revisions
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The Badge show the Personal Arms of Willebrord Snellius (1580-1626), professor of Mathematics at the University of Leiden. His work was of great importance to hydrographic cartography. | |||
He also laid the foundations for a method to measure angles by means of trigonometry. | |||
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