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Paul Kurtz verkozen als nieuw lid Jonge Academie

20-02-2023 | Updated: 20-02-2023

De Jonge Academie heeft dertien nieuwe leden verkozen na een open oproep. Paul Michael Kurtz, lid van het Sarton Centre, is één van hen. Paul blijft lid tot 31 maart 2028. Nieuwe leden op JA-website | Persbericht | Tweet alle nieuwe leden | Tweet verkiezing Paul Kurtz De plechtige inauguratie vindt ...

[Outreach] Het staat in de sterren geschreven

18-01-2021 | Updated: 31-01-2022

In the podcast ' Geheugenissen', Julie Van Bogaert, Research Officer at the History Department of Ghent University, discusses historical topics for everyone who has an affinity for history. In this episode, Steven Vanden Broecke, History Professor at Ghent University and member of the Sarton Centre ...

[Prize] Annelies Lannoy receives the Jan Gillisprijs

07-12-2020 | Updated: 07-12-2020

Sarton Centre member Annelies Lannoy receives the Jan Gillisprijs for a work on the history of scientific thinking, awarded biannially by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. She is awarded the prize for her monograph Alfred Loisy and the Making of History of Religions (De ...

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

26-03-2020 | Updated: 26-03-2020

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. Everyone who is interested in 17th century experimental ...

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

02-12-2019 | Updated: 02-12-2019

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 the Italian literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth ...

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

02-12-2019

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 from the period of the Scientific Revolution through the ...

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

21-11-2019 | Updated: 21-11-2019

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 philosopher lived and worked.

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

21-11-2019 | Updated: 21-11-2019

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.