Leiden University

Leiden University is a public research university in Leiden, in the Netherlands, established in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a Protestant institution and the oldest surviving university in the country. It has seven academic faculties and more than fifty subject departments, with a second campus in The Hague, and it belongs to the Coimbra Group. In 1600 Maurice, Prince of Orange, founded an Engineering School at the university, the Duytsche Mathematique, which taught practical mathematics in Dutch rather than Latin. In this atlas it appears as the institution where Simon Stevin enrolled in 1583 and where Ludolph van Ceulen became the first professor of mathematics at that Engineering School in 1600.