Portrait of Hendrick de Hartog 1790
by Adriaan de Lelie
Hendrick de Hartog taught mathematics at the Felix Meritis Society on Monday evenings. He had this portrait made when the Dutch East India Company (VOC) appointed him a navigation examiner. On the table are a telescope and a sextant. De Hartog had devised a new, viable arithmetic method for calculating lunar distance while at sea.
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- Courtesy of Rijksmuseum
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