Apus was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35 cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

The modern constellations in this region were defined during the Age of exploration, notably by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman at the end of sixteenth century.

Chamaeleon was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.

Dorado was one of twelve constellations named by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

* 1629 – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter ( d. 1684 )

The stars were first defined as a separate constellation by Petrus Plancius, who created twelve new constellations based on the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.

Hydrus was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he influenced Cornelis de Bie, Jan Coelenbier, Cornelis van Noorde, Abraham Susenier, Herman Saftleven, Pieter Jansz van Asch, and Abraham van Beijeren.

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.

He also spent a lot of time studying famous European paintings he admired, particularly the work of the Dutch artists Johannes Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch, and Rembrandt.

The constellation was one of twelve created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.

With his rehabilitation in public esteem came the enormous rise in values, and, at the Secretan sale in 1889, the portrait of Pieter van de Broecke Danvers was bid up to 4, 420, while in 1908 the National Gallery paid 25, 000 for the large group from the collection of Lord Talbot de Malahide.

Some other interesting buildings are the town hall ( Stadhuis ), a 16th-century building that was badly damaged by a fire in 1929 but has its Renaissance façade designed by Lieven de Key still standing ; the Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland ( 1596, restored in 1878 ); De Waag ( weigh house in Dutch ), built by Pieter Post ; the former court-house ( Gerecht ); a corn-grinding windmill, now home to a museum ( Molen de Valk ) ( 1743 ); the old gymnasium ( Latijnse School ) ( 1599 ) and the city carpenter's yard and wharf ( Stadstimmerwerf ) ( 1612 ), both built by Lieven de Key ( c. 1560 – 1627 ).

Thereupon, he decided to prove his talent to the critics by forging paintings of some of the world's most famous artists, including Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch and Johannes Vermeer.

In a series of early exercises, he forged works by Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch, and Johannes Vermeer.

Most Patriots went into exile in France, while the Ancien Régime strengthened its grip on the government through the Orangist Grand Pensionary Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel.

Like the old revolutionary States-General, the new National Assembly contained radically opposed parties: the unitary democrats, led by Pieter Vreede, Johan Valckenaer, and Pieter Paulus, and the federalists, such as Jacob Abraham de Mist and Gerard Willem van Marle.

He befriended fellow students Bart Bok and Pieter Oosterhoff and was taught by Ejnar Hertzsprung, Antonie Pannekoek, Willem de Sitter, Jan Woltjer, Jan Oort and the physicist Paul Ehrenfest.

* Pieter de Hooch

ca: Pieter Brueghel el Jove

ca: Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus ( ca.

ca: Pieter Zeeman

" Woman with cittern ", canvas painted 1677 by Pieter van Slingeland ( ca.

ca: Pieter de Hooch

ca: Pieter Boddaert

ca: Pieter Bleeker

The hofje currently known as the Vrouwe-en Antonie Gasthuis on the Klein Heiligland behind the Frans Hals Museum, was originally built by Pieter Joosten Boogaert as a Mennonite hofje in ca.

ca: Pieter van der Aa

ca: Pieter Jansz Saenredam

Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser ( Emden, ca 1540?

ca: Pieter Claesz

In 1615, the shipwreck and death of governor Pieter Both, who was coming back from India with four richly laden ships in the bay, caused the route to be considered as cursed by Dutch sailors, and they tried to avoid it as much as possible.

Pieter Both ( 1568, Amersfoort – 6 March 1615, Mauritius ) was the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.

* 1886 – Pieter Oud, Dutch politician ( d. 1968 )

* 1984 – Pieter Dirkx, Belgian film director

Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks ( 1569 – 1625 ), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons.

It was invented independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden ( Leyden ) in 1745 – 1746.

* 1581 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer ( d. 1647 )

* 1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1865 )

* 1714 – Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist ( d. 1778 )

‪ File: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. jpg ‬| Hendrik Lorentz ( 1853 – 1928 ): clarified electromagnetic theory of light, shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect, developed concept of local time, derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time .‬‬‬

He was the sixth child of Pieter Jiltes Tadema ( 1797 – 1840 ), the village notary, who had had three sons by a previous marriage, and the third child of his mother, Hinke Dirks Brouwer ( c. 1800 – 1863 ).

* October 9 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1865 )

* Physics – Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman

* January 12 – Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa ( d. 2006 )

* September 21 – Pieter Vreede, Dutch politician ( b. 1750 )

* June 24 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist ( b. 1714 )

* March 31 – Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar ( b. 1668 )

* October 13 – Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist ( d. 1778 )

* March 16 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian ( d. 1647 )

* September 9 – Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter

* May 21 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historian ( b. 1581 )

* April – Pieter Barbiers, Dutch artist ( d. 1780 )

Peter Minuit, Pieter Minuit, Pierre Minuit or Peter Minnewit ( 1580 – August 5, 1638 ) was a Walloon from Wesel, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves.

In his De Groote Schouburgh ( 1718 – 21 ), Arnold Houbraken mentions Philips Wouwerman, Adriaen Brouwer, Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten, Adriaen van Ostade and Dirck van Delen as students.