Pieter Janszoon Quackenbosch
Parents
Gerritje Haring
Gerritje Haring
1544 - 1635
Abraham Quackenbosch
Abraham Quackenbosch
1545 - 1611
Spouse
Nelletjen Pietersz
Nelletjen Pietersz
1590 - 1656
Children
Pieter Quackenbosch
Pieter Quackenbosch
1614 - 1686

1614


Aug 28
Age: 24y
1614 Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms), outlining his discovery of logarithms and incorporating the decimal mark. Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon begins to employ logarithms in his description of the solar system.

1651


Age: 61y
1651 St. Peter's Flood – First storm tide in the North Sea strikes the coast of Germany, drowning thousands. The island of Juist is split in half and the western half of Buise is probably washed away.

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