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Through his education and career, Vertregt gained an incentive to take an interest in many sciences and arts.

During his study at the Technical School at Dordrecht, where he learned mathematics, chemistry, physics and mechanical and chemical engineering, he studied Greek and Latin for himself in order to get a better understanding of the special features of these civilisations.

From early youth he had learned English, French and German, and later in life he added Italian and Spanish.

Moreover, from youth he had an absorbing interest in history and read widely in it and the history of art.

In this manner he got a broad viewpoint on a vast terrain of human endeavour.

Wanting to make this accumulated knowledge useful, he described the history of the civilisation of the countries of the Mediterranean and Western Europe in his book The Threefold Way.

He also designed a Martian Calendar.