These novels differ from the Western tradition in several points as described by van Gulik:

* Forrer, Matthi, Willem R. van Gulik, Jack Hillier A Sheaf of Japanese Papers, The Hague, Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts, 1979.

* Forrer, Matthi ; van Gulik, Willem R., and Kaempfer, Heinz M. ( 1982 ).

* Robert van Gulik ( 1910 – 1967 ), orientalist, diplomat, and writer

The sinologist Robert van Gulik concluded gibbons were widespread in Central and Southern China until at least the Song Dynasty, and furthermore, based on an analysis of references to primates in Chinese literature and their portrayal in Chinese paintings, the Chinese word yuán ( 猿 ) referred specifically to gibbons until they were extirpated throughout most of the country due to habitat destruction ( circa 14th century ).

Robert Hans van Gulik (, August 9, 1910, Zutphen – September 24, 1967, The Hague ) was a highly educated orientalist, diplomat, musician ( of the guqin ), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.

Robert van Gulik was the son of a medical officer in the Dutch army of what was then called the Dutch East Indies ( modern-day Indonesia ).

During World War II van Gulik translated the 18th-century detective novel Dee Goong An into English under the title Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee ( first published in Tokyo in 1949 ).

Thanks to his translation of this largely forgotten work, van Gulik became interested in Chinese detective fiction.

With the success of the book, van Gulik produced a translation into Chinese, which was published by a Singapore book publisher in 1953.

The reviews were good, and van Gulik wrote two more books ( The Chinese Bell Murders and The Chinese Lake Murders ) over the next few years, also with an eye toward Japanese and then Chinese editions.

Next, van Gulik found a publisher for English versions of the stories, and the first such version was published in 1957.

Robert van Gulik studied Indisch Recht ( Dutch Indies law ) and Indologie ( Indonesian culture ) at Leiden University from 1929 until 1934, receiving his doctorate for a dissertation on the horse cult in Northeast Asia.

In his lifetime van Gulik was recognized as a European expert on Imperial Chinese jurisprudence.

Commenting on one of Ming Emperor Xuande's works, " Gibbons at Play ", van Gulik says that while it is " not a great work of art ", it is " ably executed ".

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* September 24 – Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee author

These novels differ from the Western genre in several points as described by van Gulik:

After Robert van Gulik came across it in a second-hand book store in Tokyo, he translated the novel into English and then used the style and characters to write his original Judge Dee stories.

This gave van Gulik the idea of writing his own novels, set with the similar Ming anachronisms, but using the historical character.

Judge Dee, naturally, is responsible for deciding the sentence as well as assessing guilt or innocence, although van Gulik notes in the stories that all capital punishments must be referred to and decided by officials in the capital.

Zhu Xiao Di has no relation to Robert van Gulik but tried to stay faithful to the fictionalized history of van Gulik's Judge Dee.

Following novels and short stories were published in English by van Gulik.

The stranger, his head seemingly sunk in thought, started to cross the street against the light just as a huge moving van roared through the intersection.

A more recent study by science historian John van Wyhe has determined that the idea that Darwin delayed publication only dates back to the 1940s, and Darwin's contemporaries thought the time he took was reasonable.

The Flemish chemist, Jan Baptist van Helmont about 1635, thought he had proved water to be the essential element from his famous experiment with a willow tree.

Jan van Eyck has often been linked as brother to painter and peer Hubert van Eyck, because both have been thought to originate from the same town in Belgium.

Portrait thought for a time to be Hooke, but almost certainly Jan Baptist van Helmont.

Rarely was any thought given to the artistic heritage of these cities, though families were sometimes able to protect the church monuments of their ancestors, and in Delft the syndics of the painters ' Guild of Saint Luke were able to rescue the altarpiece by Maarten van Heemskerck, which the guild had commissioned only 15 years earlier.

The first mention of this village is from 823, when it is thought that Lord Jacob van den Woude was granted the area as a fiefdom from Louis the Pious.

* Jan and Hubert van Eyck, painters, thought to have been born in Maaseik ( c. 1385-1441 and c. 1366-1426, respectively )

In this sense, but no other, it is true to say that the Schlieffen Plan was logistically impracticable. In van Creveld's view the design of the Plan was not characterized by the kind of thoroughness and detailed planning that is usually thought to be the hallmark of the German General Staff, but by " an ostrich-like refusal on Schlieffen's part to face even those problems which, after forty years of peace, could be foreseen.

At that time van Gogh gave Theo a less than flattering account of Breitner's paintings as resembling mouldy wallpaper, although he did say he thought he would be all right in the end.

All agree, however, that they learned about the star from Griaule " Griaule's daughter Genevieve Calame-Griaule responded in a later issue, arguing that Van Beek did not go " through the appropriate steps for acquiring knowledge " and suggesting that van Beek's Dogon informants may have thought that he had been " sent by the political and administrative authorities to test the Dogon's Muslim orthodoxy.

The effects of vacuum energy can be experimentally observed in various phenomena such as spontaneous emission, the Casimir effect, the van der Waals bonds and the Lamb shift, and are thought to influence the behavior of the Universe on cosmological scales.

For a long time it was thought that Jan van Eyck was the first painter to make full use of the innovations apparent in manuscript illumination in panel painting.

Hendrikje " Henny " van Andel-Schipper ( née Schipper ) () ( 29 June 1890 – 30 August 2005 ) was the oldest person ever in the history of the Netherlands ( breaking the previous record of Catharina van Dam on 26 September 2003 ), and from 29 May 2004 was thought to be the oldest recognized person in the world until her death ( although her case was later superseded by the one of María Capovilla of Ecuador ).

The original Nordstrand island ( before the flood of 1634 ) is thought to be the ancestral homeland for the North American surname " van Nostrand " ( including variants: vanNostrand, vanNordstrandt, vanOstrand ).

Theoretically they were an autonomous management organ, but in practice, they had to pay ' serious consideration ' to what the 4th organ ; Raad van Beheer ; thought about the course of action for the organisation.

Another headland just to the west of Cape Reinga is Cape Maria van Diemen, which was discovered and named by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman during his journey in 1642 and thought of by him to be the northernmost point of the newly-discovered country he named ' Staten Landt '.

The Nijvel gang or the Brabant killers (" De Bende van Nijvel " or " de Bende " in Dutch, " Les Tueurs du Brabant " or " les Tueurs fous du Brabant wallon " or " les Tueurs fous du Brabant " in French ) is a group or groups thought to be responsible for the " Brabant massacres ", a series of violent attacks that occurred mostly in the province of Brabant in Belgium between 1982 and 1985, in which 28 people died and over 20 others were injured.

Roel van Duijn is thought to have been the group's theorist, influenced by anarchism, Dadaism, Herbert Marcuse, and the Marquis de Sade.

A multi-color underpainting was thought to be more useful by artists such as Giotto ( whose technique is described in detail by Cennino Cennini ), as well as by Jan van Eyck and Roger van der Weyden ( whose technique has been studied with modern scientific analysis ).

He argues that he thought that he had the right to use the van for the camping trip because he was allowed to use the van to go the party.