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Jan Leeghwater, Dutch mill builder and hydraulic engineer, 1608 (c1870). Artist: W Steelink
Jan Leeghwater, Dutch mill builder and hydraulic engineer 1608 (c1870). Leeghwater was responsible for begiining the process of the reclamation of land from the North Sea in the Netherlands. Beginning in 1607, he drained the Beemster polder, the first to be created using windmills. By 1635 three further polders had been drained under his supervision. A print from Nederlands Geschiedenis en Volksleven in Schetsen, by J Van Lenner and J Ter Gouw. (Leiden, AW Sijthoff, c1870).
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5422px × 3236px
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HIP / Art Resource, NY
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17th century
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
building
BUILDINGS
CIVIL ENGINEER
Civil engineering
clothes
concept
Costume
country
DRAINAGE
Dress
Dutch
ENGINEER
Engineering
Engraving
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Gerrit Alexander Godart Filip Mollinger;Gerrit Mollinger;Ale
Gouw
Hat
HYDRAULIC
J ter
J ter Gouw
J van
J van Lenner
JAN
Jan Leeghwater
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Labor
land reclamation
Leeghwater
Lenner
LOCATION
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Man
Men
Monochrome
Netherlands
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People
polders
Print Collector8
PROFESSION
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Steelink
TGN
The Netherlands, Topography
The Print Collector
W
W Steelink
Windmill
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