Levinus Hulsius

Levinus Hulsius (1550 – 1606) was a maker and dealer of fine scientific instruments; publisher and printer; linguist and lexicographer; wrote extensively on the construction of geometrical instruments. Although he was born in Flanders he lived and worked in the Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire.

Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum, 1605

Levinus Hulsius
Born	1550  Ghent
Died	13 March 1606  (aged 55–56) Frankfurt
Occupation	Writer, publisher, instrument maker, notary, printer

Print by Levinus Hulsius, 1596

Works

• Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum (in Latin). Vol. 1. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.
• Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.
• Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum (in Latin). Vol. 3. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter. 1605.

Sources

• F.X. de Feller (1818). "HULSIUS (Levinus)". Dictionnaire historique, ou Histoire abrégée (in French). Vol. 4. Paris & Lyon. p. 675.
• Georg Wolfgang Karl Lochner (1881). "Hulsius, Levin". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 13. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. p. 335.
• Josef Benzing (1974). "Hulsius (van Hülsen), Levin". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 10. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. p. 30. (full text online).
• Mathematics from the birth of numbers, Jan Gullberg, W. W. Norton & Company; 1st ed edition (October 1997), 1093 pages ISBN 0-393-04002-X ISBN 978-0-393-04002-9
• Ralf Kern: "Wissenschaftliche Instrumente in Ihrer Zeit". Band 2: "Vom Compendium zum Einzelinstrument". Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-866-6