Nicolaus Mulerius

Mulerius first studied Philology, Philosophy and Theology and from 1582 he also studied Medicine and Mathematics at the University of Leiden, where Lipsius, Vulcanius, Snellius and Heurnius were teachers.

In 1603 he became leading physician in Groningen, in 1608 he took the position as school master of the Leeuwarden gymnasium.

In 1616, Nicolaus Mulerius published a textbook on astronomy reminiscent of the Sphere by Johannes de Sacrobosco.

Also in 1616, he published the third, updated and annotated edition of Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.

[2] An account of the life of Ubbo Emmius, written by Nicolaus Mulerius, was published, with the lives of other professors of Groningen, at Groningen in 1638, eight years after Mulerius' death.