Antony van Leeuwenhoek
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Summary of what Delft archivist Soutendam had learned about Leeuwenhoek from the archives. It placed Leeuwenhoek's house on the corner of the Oude Delft and the Boterbrug instead of on the Hippolytusbuurt where he really lived for almost seventy years. Soutendam even showed an engraving of the planetarium in the fence at the front door.
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Het huis, waarin L. gewoond en zijn waarnemingen en ontdekkingen op het gebied der natuur gedaan heeft, bestaat nog. Het is gelegen aan de O. zijde van het Oude Delft, aan den N.W. hoek van de Boterbrug Wijk IV 455; in het stoephek wordt een planetarium gevonden, waarvan men verhaalt, dat L. het daar heeft aangebracht. |
The house still exists where L. lived and made his observations and discoveries in the realm of nature. It lies on the E. side of the Oude Delft, on the N.W. corner of the Boterbrug district IV 455; in the sidewalk fence is found a planetarium, of which it is said that L. put it there. |
A few years later, a plaque was mounted where the (wrong) house had stood. The plaque still exists, but was corrected: "at this place" was changed to "in this city".
The planetarium was also moved, and is now on a house near the old Vleeshal (photo courtesy of Johan Geertzenwijk; click to enlarge).
The portrait below from the first page of the article is after Verkolje's portrait of 1686, as noted in the lower right.
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