Museum Boerhaave

"In 1635 at the University of Köningsberg, a knife was removes from Andreas Grünheide. He had swallowed the knife a month earlier in a drinking bout. Such an operation was a very risky business in those days but this one went remarkably well. As a memento the professor in charge had this painting made for his Leiden colleague Otto Heurnius. The ‘Portrait of a Prussian Peasant, who Swallowed a knife 10 inches Long’’immediately gained a place among the other raities in the Leiden Anatomy Theather." From their website: National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine As the national treasury of scientific endeavours, the museum shows some 400 years of advances in knowledge. Developments in the various sciences can be viewed in 24 rooms on two levels. The emphasis is on contributions from the Netherlands.

From their website: National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine As the national treasury of scientific endeavours, the museum shows some 400 years of advances in knowledge. Developments in the various sciences can be viewed in 24 rooms on two levels. The emphasis is on contributions from the Netherlands.

Made by Otto Brungels. Strasbourg 1539 From their website: National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine As the national treasury of scientific endeavours, the museum shows some 400 years of advances in knowledge. Developments in the various sciences can be viewed in 24 rooms on two levels. The emphasis is on contributions from the Netherlands.

From their website: National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine As the national treasury of scientific endeavours, the museum shows some 400 years of advances in knowledge. Developments in the various sciences can be viewed in 24 rooms on two levels. The emphasis is on contributions from the Netherlands.

From Georg Marcgraf, a student from Liebstadt (Saxony). He went on a expedition with the Dutch West Indies Company, where he studied flora and fauna in Brasil. From their website: National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine As the national treasury of scientific endeavours, the museum shows some 400 years of advances in knowledge. Developments in the various sciences can be viewed in 24 rooms on two levels. The emphasis is on contributions from the Netherlands.

This is the edition of Leiden University Library. From their website: National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine As the national treasury of scientific endeavours, the museum shows some 400 years of advances in knowledge. Developments in the various sciences can be viewed in 24 rooms on two levels. The emphasis is on contributions from the Netherlands.

Later known as Halley's Comet. From their website: National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine As the national treasury of scientific endeavours, the museum shows some 400 years of advances in knowledge. Developments in the various sciences can be viewed in 24 rooms on two levels. The emphasis is on contributions from the Netherlands.

From their website: National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine As the national treasury of scientific endeavours, the museum shows some 400 years of advances in knowledge. Developments in the various sciences can be viewed in 24 rooms on two levels. The emphasis is on contributions from the Netherlands.

From their website: National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine As the national treasury of scientific endeavours, the museum shows some 400 years of advances in knowledge. Developments in the various sciences can be viewed in 24 rooms on two levels. The emphasis is on contributions from the Netherlands.