Levinus Hulsius

Levinus Hulsius
Born	1550 Ghent
Died	13 March 1606(aged 55–56) Frankfurt
Occupation	Writer,publisher, instrument maker,notary,printer

Print by Levinus Hulsius, 1596

Levinus Hulsius(1550 – 1606) was a maker and dealer of fine scientific instruments; publisher and printer;linguistandlexicographer;wrote extensively on the construction of geometrical instruments. Although he was born inFlandershe lived and worked in theNetherlandsand Germany.

Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum,1605

Works

• Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum(in Latin). Vol. 1. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.
• Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum(in Latin). Vol. 2. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.
• Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum(in Latin). Vol. 3. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.

Sources

• F.X. de Feller(1818). "HULSIUS (Levinus) ".Dictionnaire historique, ou Histoire abrégée(in French). Vol. 4. Paris & Lyon. p. 675.
• Georg Wolfgang Karl Lochner (1881), "Hulsius, Levin",Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie(in German), vol. 13, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 335
• Josef Benzing (1974),"Hulsius (van Hülsen), Levin",Neue Deutsche Biographie(in German), vol. 10, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 30;(full text online)
• Mathematics from the birth of numbers,Jan Gullberg,W. W. Norton & Company; 1st ed edition (October 1997), 1093 pagesISBN0-393-04002-XISBN978-0-393-04002-9
• Ralf Kern: "Wissenschaftliche Instrumente in Ihrer Zeit". Band 2: "Vom Compendium zum Einzelinstrument". Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 2010,ISBN978-3-86560-866-6