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Programme


  • Wednesday, April 21, 2010
  • Thursday, April 22, 2010
  • Friday, April 23, 2010


Speakers

Below is a list of confirmed speakers, along with abstracts of their talks. More titles will be added as they are confirmed.

  • Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, »Low Country Opticks«

  • Jordy Geerlings, »Antinewtonianism and Radical Enlightenment: The Case of Johann Konrad Franz von Hatzfeld«

  • Tim Huisman, »Representations of  Science in 18th Century Genre Painting. The Dutch and the British Situation compared«

  • Rob Iliffe, »Fatio de Duillier, Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton«

  • Eric Jorink, »Putting Sir Isaac on the Map. Some remarks on the introduction of Newton and ‘Newtonianism’ in the Dutch Republic«

  • Rina Knoeff, »How Newtonian was Herman Boerhaave?«

  • Henri Krop, »Newtonianism in the history of Dutch philosophy«

  • Ad Maas, »The Man Who Erased Himself. Willem Jacob ‘s Gravesande and the Enlightenment«

  • Scott Mandelbrote, »Newton, Religion, and the Netherlands«

  • Rienk Vermij, »Dutch Newtonians and the Laws of Nature«

  • Huib Zuidervaart, »Newton’s Vehicles? Apparatus for Experimental Philosophy in the Dutch Instrument Cabinets of the Eighteenth Century«

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