Adriaan Gilles Camper
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Adriaan Gilles Camper was a 19th-century Dutch mathematics and physics professor at the University of Franeker who took to politics and became a statesman in his later years.
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Adriaan Gilles Camper was a 19th-century Dutch mathematics and physics professor at the University of Franeker who took to politics and became a statesman in his later years. He was the son of Petrus Camper is known today primarily for his paleontological work in collaboration with his father, causing several fossil holotypes to be named after him, such as the Puppigerus P. Camperi. The engravings he commissioned on the basis of his father's work were published by Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond. He himself wrote several books on paleontology, including a catalog of his collection of fossils and minerals.
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