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The impossible object illusion, made popular by artists like Maurits Cornelis Escher, is an art form mostly confined to 2D representations, like where a flowing stream behaves like a perpetual motion machine feeding itself an unending current.
Cornelis de Gyselaer: Not a dog but.
Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans * Megophias megophias : A large sea lion-like creature with a long neck and long tail.
But the ship, the Cornelis Houtman, sent to carry him back to Batavia, was thrown ashore by a typhoon in Nagasaki bay.
Cornelis Soetens, the keeper of the magazine, opened the store to check a sample of the powder and a huge explosion followed.
Further, a number of Dutchmen like Jan Huyghen van Linschoten and Cornelis de Houtman obtained first hand knowledge of the "secret" Portuguese trade routes and practices, thereby providing opportunity.
Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, who had accomplished a diplomatic balancing act for a long time, were now the obvious scapegoats.
Repaired, the Cornelis Houtman was refloated.