leyden in English

noun

city in Holland (also Leiden); town in Massachusetts (USA); family name; type of Dutch cheese that is similar to Edam cheese

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1. Battery of Leyden Jar "capacitors" linked together (Image courtesy of Alvinrune of Wikimedia Commons)

2. As The Register's John Leyden notes, Symantec's numbers fall in line with similar data from Kaspersky Lab, which reported that spam dropped to 3% in the third quarter of 20

3. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus is perhaps best known for his monumental Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, which was published in Leyden in 1747, largely at his own expense

4. Jan Rudolph Deiman and Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk used, in 1789, an electrostatic machine to make electricity which was discharged on gold electrodes in a Leyden jar with water.

5. The Belgic Confession was prepared in 1561 by Guido de Brès, with the aid of Adrien de Saravia (professor of theology in Leyden, afterwards at Cambridge, where he died, 1613), H

6. Boulton worked with Franklin in efforts to contain electricity within a Leyden jar, and when the printer needed new glass for his "glassychord" (a mechanised version of musical glasses) he obtained it from Boulton.

7. Boate was born Gerrit/Gerard Boot, in Gorinchem, son of the knight Godfried de Boot (c.1570–1625) and of Christine van Loon.He entered the university of Leyden as a medical student and graduated there as doctor of medicine 3 July 1628