Groningen
In the summer of 1661 he vacationed with Ole Borch and visited the Zuidersee and the university town of Groningen.
Hamburg
From Rostock he would have gone on to Hamburg, where he would have undoubtedly seen the cathedral and perhaps the Spinnhaus and the Zuchthaus.
Dunkerque
From Dunkerque Niels Steensen could see England, a country he was never to visit. On his visit he would have seen this belfry, which still stands today.
Paris
When his mother died in 1664, Niels Steensen inherited a sum of money which enabled him to go abroad again. He went to Paris, and was the guest of the prominent French academician, Melchisédec Thévenot, and met the elite of…
