Image: House where Gabriel Fahrenheit died in 1736, at Plein square, The Hague; img01

Description: House where Gabriel Fahrenheit died in 1736, at Plein square, The Hague. From August 1736 Fahrenheit stayed in the house of Johannes Frisleven at Plein square in The Hague, in connection with an application for a patent at the States of Holland. At the beginning of September he became ill and on the 7th his health had deteriorated to such an extent that he had notary Willem Ruijsbroek come visit him to draw up his will. On the 11th the notary came by again to make some changes. Five days after that Fahrenheit died at the age of fifty. Four days later he received a fourth-class funeral, which meant that he was destitute, in the Kloosterkerk in The Hague. (the Cloister or Monestary Church)
Title: House where Gabriel Fahrenheit died in 1736, at Plein square, The Hague; img01
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