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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers pp 1277–1278Cite as

Lansbergen, Jacob

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Born Goes, The Netherlands, 1590

Died Middelburg, The Netherlands, 1657

Physician Jacob Lansbergen was important in the Copernican debate within the Low Countries. His Apologia (1663) defended the author’s late father, Copernican Philip Lansbergen , against polemical attacks from anti-Copernicans Libertus Fromondus and Marin Mersenne .

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  • Howell, Kenneth J. (2002). God’s Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Office: Latham 112, 50614, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

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  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

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  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

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Hockey, T. (2014). Lansbergen, Jacob. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_823

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