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About Jan Cornets de Groot
Jan Cornets De Groot or Johan Hugo De Groot Latinized as Janus Grotius was a Dutch nobleman and scholar who conducted experiments in physics and explored natural philosophy. Along with Simon Stevin he experimented on the time taken for lead of different weights to fall to the ground to prove Aristotle wrong in the famous Delft tower experiment.
Everything about Jan Cornets de Groot →- Occupation
- politician, jurist, mayor
- Position held
- mayor of a place in the Netherlands
- Citizenship
- Dutch Republic
- Born
- 1554, 1554
- Died
- 1640