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LÜTHY, Christoph. David Gorlaeus (1591-1612). History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, Volume 13. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012. 225pp. Cloth, $42.50-David Gorlaeus was a Dutch philosopher who lived and worked in the early 1600s. He was cited as one of the more important early anti-Aristotelians in later seventeenth-century accounts, but interest in him dwindled in the ensuing centuries. In the late nineteenth century, Gorlaeus was rediscovered by chemists because his works advocated an atomic theory of matter. Inquiries by scientific historians of that time, such as Kurd Lasswitz, resulted in more, rather than fewer, questions about Gorlaeus's life and work. The details of Gorlaeus's atomic theory were unlike those of any other author, ancient or contemporary. Facts about Gorlaeus's life were limited and did not seem to describe the career of a scientific theorist. In 1890 Lasswitz wrote: "A monograph on Gorlaeus and this important decade [1610-20, in which he worked] is a great desideratum." Authors in the twentieth century have seen Gorlaeus as a proto-scientist and early modem atomist. To paraphrase the author of the current work, they did this while shrugging off their perplexity at the lack of knowledge of who Gorlaeus was or how he came by his ideas.