Patriot and Patrician Paperback 42(3): 469–471

42(3): 469–471

Estes skillfully applies modern historical techniques to transform these fragments of information into objective data

” His laboratory notebooks of this period also reveal an interest in metallic capillarity

especially from England

He communicates with clarity

Patriot and Patrician Paperback 42(3): 469–471Hooft, Hendrik, 1999, 256pp., illus. The idea for this book took shape on a business trip to Ceylon the author made with Christopher Ondaatje, the brother of Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje. In the 1780s two of their ancestors had championed the popular movement that brought to the Dutch Republic the first democratically elected government in Europe, a few years before the French Revolution. Hendrik Hooft the elder, burgomaster of Amsterdam, was