Petrus Camper (May 11, 1722 - April 7, 1789) was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, paleontologist and a naturalist. He studied the orangutan, the rhinoceros, and the skull of a mosasaur, which he believed was a whale. Line engraving by Reinier Vinkeles and C. Bogerts, 1792, after Jacobus Buys.

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Petrus Camper, Dutch Polymath

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