minute from the 24 March 1616 meeting of the Accademia dei Lincei, which records that he was temporarily excluded from meetings until he was once again of sound mind. Nothing further is known about him. Selected works De nova stella disputatio. Aloisius Zannettus, Rome 1605 Disputatio de peste et quare praecipue grassatur tot ab hinc annis in Belgio, Deventer 1605 ('Discourse on the Plague, From Whence It Came Why It Lasted So Many Years in The Netherlands') Itineraris de septentrionales fructus ('Fruits of a Journey in the North') De mundi pernicie et haereticorum insania, quae in hac mundi senecta apud Belgas maxima est ('On the Destruction of the World and the Mania of Heretics, which in This Age of the World is Greatest in the Netherlands') Notes References External links scan of the original manuscript in cipher of van Heeck's “Itineris de septentrionales fructus” article on deciphering van Heeck's “Itineris de septentrionales fructus” 1579 births Dutch naturalists Natural philosophers Members of the Lincean Academy