History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands
History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands

Author: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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This website provides access to a digital library of texts by Dutch scholars and scientists from a variety of academic disciplines, dating from the earliest times till about 1920. The texts have been selected for their relevance for the study of the history of science and scholarship in the Netherlands by an editorial committee. The Academy has made this field the focus of its publishing programme and aims to bring together a large corpus of texts in digital format for the research community.

Empire and Science in the Making
Empire and Science in the Making

Author: P. Boomgaard

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1137334029

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Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia.

The Origins of the Telescope
The Origins of the Telescope

Author: Albert Van Helden

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9069846152

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The origins of the telescope have been discussed and debated since shortly after the instrument's appearance in The Hague in 1608. Civic and national pride have led local dignitaries, popular writers, and numerous scholars to search the archives and to construct sharply divergent histories. Did the honor of the invention belong to the Dutch, to the Italians, to the English, or to the Spanish? And if the city of Middelburg in the Netherlands was, in fact, the cradle of the instrument, was the "true inventor" Hans Lipperhey or his rival Zacharias Jansen? Or was the instrument there before anyone knew it? Over the past several decades, a group of historians and scientists have sought out new documents, re-examined familiar ones, and tested early lenses and telescopes. This volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held in Middelburg in September 2008 to mark 400 years of the telescope. The essays in it, taken as a whole, present a new and convincing account of the origins of the instrument that changed mankind's vision of the universe.

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 8, Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 8, Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context

Author: Hugh Richard Slotten

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-09

Total Pages: 1046

ISBN-13: 1108863353

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This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date nondisciplinary history of modern science currently available. Essays are grouped together in separate sections that represent larger regions: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, and Latin America. Each of these regional groupings ends with a separate essay reflecting on the analysis in the preceding chapters. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the modern world, contributors analyze the history of science not only in local, national, and regional contexts but also with respect to the circulation of knowledge, tools, methods, people, and artifacts across national borders.

Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion
Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion

Author: Susanne Friedrich

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-05-19

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 3110391465

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships. The essays in this book explore how these circulations transformed knowledge in Asian and European societies. They concentrate on epistemic consequences in the fields of historiography, geography, natural history, religion and philosophy, as well as in everyday life. Emphasizing transformations, the volume reconstructs small semantic shifts of knowledge and tentative adjustments to new cultural contexts. It unfolds the often conflict-ridden, complex and largely global history of specific pieces of knowledge as well as of generally-shared contemporary understandings regarding what could or could not be considered true. The book contributes to current debates about how to conceptualize the unsettled epistemologies of the early modern world.

In Splendid Isolation
In Splendid Isolation

Author: Patricia Faasse

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9069845415

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For almost a hundred years, the Willie Commelin Scholten laboratory was the hub of phytopathology research in the Netherlands, where generations of students learned the principles of plant pathology. In Splendid Isolation reconstructs the history of this unique institution, from its beginnings as a small private laboratory in the late nineteenth century to its final days as a renowned university research center. This unique volume chronicles how the laboratory’s scientific reputation spread far beyond the country’s borders as it diagnosed and researched thousands of plant diseases.