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191. - Van Velthuysen, Lambertus (1622–1685)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

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Aaron Garrett
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Karolina Hübner
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Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
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Lambertus van Velthuysen was an important precursor and critic of Spinoza. He was also a governor of the Dutch East India Company, a physician (trained by Henricus Regius), a Walloon minister, a theologian, an alderman of Utrecht, and the commissioner representing the political authorities to the Utrecht consistory.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 562 - 563
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Douglas, A. X. (2015). Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism: Philosophy and Theology. Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Van Velthuysen, L. (2013). A Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency: Containing a Defence of the Treatise de Cive of the Learned Mr. Hobbes, ed. Secretan, C., trans. Mowbray, M. de. Brill.Google Scholar

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