List Of Dutch Discoveries
The following list is composed of objects, concepts, phenomena and processes that were discovered or invented by people from the Netherlands. Discoveries Archaeology Java Man (Homo erectus erectus) (1891) Java Man (''Homo erectus erectus'') is the name given to hominid fossils discovered in 1891 at Trinil – Ngawi Regency on the banks of the Solo River in East Java, Indonesia, one of the first known specimens of Homo erectus. Its discoverer, Dutch paleontologist Eugène Dubois, gave it the scientific name Pithecanthropus erectus, a name derived from Greek and Latin roots meaning ''upright ape-man''. Astronomy Columba (constellation) (1592) Columba is a small, faint constellation named in the late sixteenth century. Its name is Latin for dove. It is located just south of Canis Major and Lepus. Columba was named by Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius in 1592 in order to differentiate the 'unformed stars' of the large constellation Canis Major. Plancius first depicted ...
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