Burchard de Volder
Dutch physician 1643 – 1709
- De Simplicitate Dei, Echo et Republica (1660)
- De Natura (1664)
Burchard de Volder (26 July 1643 – 21 March 1709) was a Dutch physicist.
Biography
He was born in a Mennonite family in Amsterdam. He earned an M.A. in philosophy at the University of Utrecht under Johannes de Bruin [de] in 1660. He earned his medical doctorate from the University of Leiden under Franciscus Sylvius in 1664.[2] He became professor of physics at Leiden University in 1670.[3] Thanks to the efforts of the Volder, a physics laboratory at the University of Leiden was established in 1675. He collected measuring instruments of all kinds and performed many physics demonstrations, particularly those illustrating the discoveries of Robert Boyle. This laboratory was unique for its time. He is further famous as one of Gottfried Leibniz's most important philosophical correspondents.[4][5]
De Volder's work drew many foreign students. One of his most famous students was Herman Boerhaave.
References
- ^ Gerrit Arie Lindeboom (ed.), Boerhaave and His Time, Brill, 1970, p. 7.
- ^ Burchard de Volder (1664). "De Natura" (PDF).
- ^ "List of Professors at Leiden University".
- ^ Paul Lodge, "Leibniz's Close Encounter with Cartesiansim in the Correspondence with De Volder", in Leibniz and His Correspondents Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-83410-4, pp. 162-192.
- ^ The Leibniz-De Volder Correspondence, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
External links
- Burchard de Volder at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Ph.D. students of B. de Volder
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