[In Dutch] Gewina Anniversary Design Contest (Deadline: 1 October 2013)
Eric Jorink appointed Teyler Professor for the study of Social aspects of the Enlightenment
[Report in Dutch] Boerhaave Museum receives (more) Paul Ehrenfest archives (Pim Huijnen)
Door Pim Huijnen
Museum Boerhaave in Leiden heeft een belangrijke aanvulling ontvangen op zijn archief van theoretisch fysicus Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933). Vrijdag 31 mei organiseerde het museum een symposium over het belang ervan – en van dat van Ehrenfest zelf. Ter afsluiting overhandigde prof.dr. Diana K. Buchwald, directrice van het Einstein Papers Project aan het California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, de archiefdozen symbolisch aan Boerhaave-directeur Dirk van Delft.
[Job] 1 PhD researcher in the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities (1,0 fte) (Embedded in the Descartes Centre, Utrecht University; Deadline 9 June)
The Descartes Centre (Utrecht University) is offering a position for a PhD researcher in the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities (1,0 fte) Read more…
[Book] Between Rhetoric and Reality – Instrumental Practices at the Astronomical Observatory of the Amsterdam Society ‘Felix Meritis’, 1786-1889
Felix Meritis, the remarkable ‘Temple of Enlightenment’, adorns the Amsterdam canals since 1788. The building accommodated the most ambitious attempt in the Netherlands for the integration of activi- ties regarding literature, music, the visual arts, commerce, and the sciences. What so far went unnoticed is that, from the very start, Felix Meritis was also equipped with an astronomical and meteorological observatory. In fact, it was the first scientific observatory in the Netherlands designed from the drawing board. Read more…
[Jobs] Three postdoctoral fellowships for up to three months at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Deadline: 30 June 2013)
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe; Director: Prof. Dr. Sven Dupré) announces three postdoctoral fellowships for up to three months between January 1 and December 31, 2014. Outstanding junior and senior scholars (including those on sabbatical leave from their home institutions) are invited to apply. Read more…
[Call for Applications] GHS – FMSH Postdoctoral Fellowships (Deadline: 30 April 2012)
The Fondation Maison de Science de l’Homme and the Gerda Henkel Foundation offer two 12-month postdoctoral fellowships for researchers in the humanities who wish to carry out an individual research project within the international setting of the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris, to integrate and/or develop scientific international networks in France and to build long-term partnerships between their home institution and the French host institution. Applications from promising young scholars worldwide are welcome. Read more…
[Conference] Notebooks, Medicine and the Sciences in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 12-13 July 2013)
Participants are invited for a workshop on Notebooks, Medicine and the Sciences in Early Modern Europe. This is the first of a series of events organised as part of the Notebooks Network, a new research initiative to bring together scholars working on paper technologies, especially, but not exclusively in the early modern period and with a focus on medicine and the sciences. Read more…
[Online source] Early modern scientific and medical travel
In 1663, Martin Lister left his parents’ house in Burwell, Lincolnshire to study medicine in Montpellier. Whilst in France for the next three years, he kept a journal in an almanac entitled Every Man’s Companion: Or, An useful Pocket-Book (MS Lister 19, Bodleian Library, Oxford). The pocket book demonstrates the intellectual development of a significant seventeenth-century physician and naturalist, and is a vivid, firsthand account of medical education and natural philosophy in the 1660s. It is also a detailed representation of the grand tour of a gentleman. Read more…
[Opinion] Dutch movable stations in nature – ‘for a dime on the first row’
Recently, the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera station has welcomed new guests. A group of Dutch scientists from the universities of Utrecht and Groningen and from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research arrived this season to do laboratory research, financially supported by the NWO, the Dutch NSF. Neither being able nor willing to construct a research site for themselves on the seventh continent, these Dutch institutions decided to piggyback. Why not stay at the compounds of their North Sea neighbours, located on Adelaide Island?
And it is quite interesting to see the freebies the Dutch got. The British arrange the logistics (from Cambridge) and they have built the mobile docking station that matches with the four Dutch mobile laboratories. Interestingly, these mobile labs are rebuilt… cargo containers. So, this is how Dutch big science rolls!
