 Nuyts died on 11 December 1655 and was buried in a churchyard in Hulst . The tombstone remained until 1983 , when it was destroyed during renovations of the church . After his funeral it was discovered that he had collected more taxes from his estates than he had handed over to the authorities ; his son Pieter eventually repaid his father 's debts . It was the younger Pieter who also arranged the posthumous publication of his father 's treatise Lof des Elephants , in 1670 — a single known copy of which still exists , in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague . 
