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Thijs van Nimwegen’s Choice: Simon Carmiggelt and Godfried Bomans

19 May 2025

Every month, a translator gives literary tips. Thijs van Nimwegen whets our appetite for two literary giants of Dutch literature. One is renowned for his melancholic, often humorous portrayals of everyday life. The other is best known for his modern fairy tales and short stories. Strangely enough, l

Simon Stevin, the Flemish Mathematician Who Gave America the Dime

22 August 2022

Not many people stop to look at the statue in the middle of Simon Stevinplein in Bruges. It celebrates a brilliant sixteenth-century mathematician born in Bruges who invented the decimal point in mathematics, but also designed a sand yacht that could reach a speed of 35 kilometres an hour.

Simon Stevin, Flemish Tutor to a Dutch Prince

18 March 2019

Bruges engineer and mathematician Simon Stevin (1548-1620) is sometimes called the Leonardo Da Vinci of the Low Countries, for he is responsible for many revolutionary discoveries in physics, architecture, mathematics and linguistics.

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