NIESTER, a large river of Poland, which has its source in the Lake Niester, in the palatinate of Lemberg, where it passes by Halicz. Then it separates Podolia and Oczakow Tartary from Moldavia and Budziac Tartary; and falls into the Black Sea at Belgorod, between the mouths of the Nieper and the Danube.
Nieuwentyt NIEUWENTYT (Bernard), an able philosopher and learned mathematician, was born at Weigraaflyk, in the year 1654, and became counsellor and burgh-master of the town of Purmerend, where he was esteemed for his integrity and learning, and died in 1718. He wrote, in Dutch, 1. An excellent treatise, intitled, The Existence of God demonstrated by the works of nature. 2. A refutation of Spinoza. 3. Some pieces against the Infinitesimals, &c.