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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Pieter Geyl

Born: December 15, 1887
Died: December 31, 1966 (aged 79)
Bio: Pieter Catharinus Arie Geyl was a Dutch historian, well known for his studies in early modern Dutch history and in historiography.
Known for:
- Napoléon, for and against (1949)
- Orange and Stuart, 1641-1672
- From Ranke to Toynbee (1952)
- Debates with historians (1955)
- Revolt of the Netherlands, 1555-1609 (1932)