A small group of freethinkers from the Dutch Republic played a key role in the major intellectual changes of the Early Enlightenment (1640–1720). In the wake of Cartesianism, their rationalist ideas transformed debates about science, theology, medicine, and political theory. This book studies the position of four translators in these debates on the ‘New Philosophy’: Jan Hendriksz Glazemaker, Pieter Balling, Abraham van Berkel, and Stephan Blankaart. It presents a comparative history of ...

In this book, Henk van Rinsum provides an in-depth description of the colonial past of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, from its foundation in 1636. He describes the development of (scientific) knowledge and knowledge transfer about and in the Dutch colonies, especially in the Dutch East Indies. The central theme of his book is the idea of Western superiority – the assumption that we are ‘developed’ and therefore modern, while those in the colonies are ‘not (yet) developed’ an...

Below the famously flat surface of the Netherlands lies a fascinating world of buried mountains and valleys, which can only be unraveled with drillings, geophysical techniques and geological understanding.

Thorough exploration for hydrocarbons, groundwater and minerals produced a wealth of data and knowledge about the Dutch subsurface and its various uses. The second edition of this book, originally published in 2007, provides access to that wealth with a thoroughly revised and updated descri...

This is a book about some of the unexpected people and places involved in cultivating knowledge of the natural world and mastery of scientific apparatus around 1800, taking readers across continental Europe from the Enlightenment to the onset of academic professionalisation. The authors widen the horizon of inquiry by looking beyond the scientific elite of academies and prestigious science sponsored by princely courts, the focus of previous major studies of this time period. They consider peo...

This book provides a thorough revision of the image of the public church under the Dutch Republic after the Peace of Westphalia and before the onset of the ‘high Enlightenment’. Traditional church history considers the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a period of decline. Yet this was the high tide of Dutch expansion when Dutch society was extremely rich. In its five universities and its highly literate population internationally acknowledged scholarship, arts and sciences flowered. D...

ASML, marktleider in geavanceerde chipmachines, initieerde in 2014 samen met NWO, AMOLF, de Universiteit van Amsterdam en de Vrije Universiteit een nieuw onderzoeksinstituut: het Advanced Research

Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL). Voor Nederlandse begrippen is ARCNL een unieke vorm van publiek-private samenwerking in de wetenschap, passend in een politiek die samenwerking tussen universiteit en industrie aanmoedigde. Hoe kwam deze samenwerking

tot stand, en hoe werkte de samenwerking in de ...

Een onderzoek naar de invloed van het Bremer piëtisme zoals dat gestalte kreeg bij F.A. Lampe (1683-1729) en zijn volgelingen in Nederland.

First published in March 2001, this work was the first and only book of its kind in the Dutch intellectual landscape, and it rapidly became a classic for multigenerational audiences with an interest in intersectional theory and praxis. By zooming in on the issues that Black, migrant, and refugee (BMR) women placed on the feminist and multicultural agenda of the late twentieth century, the writers in this volume highlight the exclusionary practices BMR women encountered within Dutch institutio...

De van oorsprong zestiende-eeuwse Bibliotheca Enchusana of Librije van

Enkhuizen is een van de oudste institutionele bibliotheken in Nederland die nog

steeds in situ wordt bewaard. Sinds het begin van de zeventiende eeuw bevindt

de collectie zich in de Westerkerk in Enkhuizen. De Librije is een belangrijk

boekwetenschappelijk monument, maar biedt ook een uniek venster op het

verleden van de stad.

Daphne Wouts reconstrueert de eeuwenlange geschiedenis

van de bibliotheek aan de hand van histor...