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[New website] The air-pump as a fact-factory

We are very proud to announce the launch of The air-pump as a fact-factory — a story told in images, sounds, and words , a website created by Jana De Kockere, PhD researcher at the Sarton Centre for History of Science at Ghent University...Read more

[New book] Teodoro Katinis: Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance

In Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance (Brill), Sarton Centre member Teodoro Katinis mines a number of little or unstudied primary sources and offers the first book on the rebirth of ancient sophists in...Read more

[New book] Charles T. Wolfe: La Philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie: Une histoire du vitalisme

Sarton Centre member Charles T. Wolfe's La Philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie: Une histoire du vitalisme (Classiques Garnier) studies the interrelation of discussions of 'Life', vitalism and the possibility of a science of life...Read more

[New book] Jetze Touber: Spinoza and Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1660–1710

Sarton Centre member Jetze Touber's Spinoza and Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1660–1710 (Oxford University Press) investigates the biblical criticism of Spinoza from the perspective of the Dutch Reformed society in which the...Read more

[New book] Manuel Mertens: Magic and Memory in Giordano Bruno

Magic and Memory in Giordano Bruno (Brill) , by Sarton Centre member Manuel Mertens, unravels the enigmatic knot between the mnemonic treatises and the magical writings of the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno.Read more