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9-24-1625

Jan de Witt born in Dordrecht, Netherlands. This statesman for the Netherlands wrote, before 1650, one of the first systematic developments of the analytic geometry of the straight line and conics. It was printed in Van Schooten's second Latin edition of Descartes' geometry (1659-1661).

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Wednesday, September 24, 1625