University Hall (Universiteitshal) in Leuven is a medieval cloth hall with 17th and 18th-century extensions that is now the main administrative building of KU Leuven.Fourteenth-century Leuven was internationally known for its cloth industry. In 1317,...
De Kangxi Hemelglobe- The Celestial global and the five other astronomical instruments designed by Ferdinal Verbiest in 1675 at the request of the Kangxi emperor exist at the ancient observatory in Bejing where Verbiest worked.In...
In 1816 King William I of the Netherlands opened national universities in Ghent, Liège and Leuven. In 1830, Belgium seceded from the Netherlands and became an independent kingdom. After the (re)founding of a Catholic University,...
