• Boekbesprekingen/Comptes Rendus 

  Schilt, Cornelis J.; Wolf, Rob; Baneke, David; Deelstra, Hendrik; De Knecht-van Eekelen, Annemarie; Pieters, Toine (Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals, 2015-07-12)
• De gezondheid van het kind en het veranderend perspectief van de Groningse plattelandsschoolarts (1930–1970) 

  Bakker, Nelleke (Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals, 2015-07-12)

  The health of the child and the changing perspective of school doctors at the Groningen countryside (1930–1970) From 1948 child hygiene was supposed to include mental health. This paper discusses the way school physicians ...
• ‘De groote Petrus Nannius van Alkmaar’ Een mansportret door Cornelis Buys II in de collectie van het Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar geïdentificeerd 

  Taatgen, Alice (Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals, 2015-07-12)

  This article describes the identification of an unknown scholar on a portrait in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar as Petrus Nannius, professor at the Collegium Trilingue of Louvain University between 1539 and ...
• Rariteiten op Reis De invloed van Albertus Seba’s contacten met reizigers op de totstandkoming van zijn rariteitenkabinet 

  Bos, Pauline (Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals, 2015-07-12)

  Traveling curiosities. The influence of Albertus Seba’s contacts with travelers during the process of accumulation of his collection of curiositiesThe Amsterdam pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665–1736) gathered in his collection ...
• Boekbesprekingen/Comptes Rendus 

  Jonker, Ed (Igitur, 2015-02-07)
• Elektrische apparaten van de ‘Nederlandsche Optiek- en Instrumentenfabriek Dr. C.E. Bleeker’ 

  Ruitenbeek, Kees (Igitur, 2015-02-07)

  Bleeker’s Electrical Instruments Mrs. Dr. C.E. Bleeker (1897–1985) led a company in optical and electrical instruments since 1932. While her optical instruments – including Prof. Frits Zernike’s Nobel Prize-winning phase ...
• Essay review: Een eeuw op zijn kop 

  Maas, Ad (Igitur, 2015-02-07)

  Beschouwing naar aanleiding van de publicatie van (1) Andreas Weber, Hybrid ambitions. Science, governance, and empire (Leiden: Leiden University Press 2012). xi+263 pp., ISBN: 978-90-8728-1663, € 49,95; (2) Martin P.M. ...
• Conceptual Change in the History of the Humanities 

  Solleveld, Floris (Igitur, 2015-02-07)

  Was there ever a ‘scientific revolution’ in the Humanities, and to what extent is that notion applicable to the Humanities at all? In this article, I formulate various ways in which to answer that question. These options ...
• Ruzie over de antichrist. Cornelis Uythage (ca. 1640–1686) als geleerde querulant 

  Vermij, Rienk (Igitur, 2015-02-07)

  Arguing about Antichrist. Cornelis Uythage’s (about 1640–1686) scholarly provocationsIn 1666, the now forgotten Leiden scholar Cornelis Uythage published his book Anti-Christus Mahometes, wherein he argued that Mohammed ...
• Nuclei in a supersaturated solution. Utrecht chemists and the crystallization of international relations after the First World War 

  Smit, Jorrit (Igitur, 2014-11-26)

  The mobilization and involvement of chemists in the First World War revealed the protean nature of science. This harsh knock to the pre-war optimistic views on the societal role of science reverberated the following decade ...
• ‘Spiritalismus vincit Mundum’ Dutch spiritualism and the beginning of psychical research 

  Kloosterman, Ingrid (Igitur, 2014-11-26)

  The science of psychical research and parapsychology stemmed, among other things, from wonder about the phenomena of spiritualism: manifestations of the deceased through mediums in séances. In the Netherlands, academic ...
• Consolation amidst the Suffering The Great War and its place in the history of Dutch neo-Calvinist theology 

  Striekwold, Robbert J. (Igitur, 2014-11-26)

  This article looks at how neo-Calvinist theologians, Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck in par- ticular, dealt with theological problems posed by the First World War. These included, most notably, the question of how to ...
• ‘We Come as Doctors, We Come as Servants’ Medical Confidentiality and Professional Identity during the Great War 

  Jacobs, Noortje (Igitur, 2014-11-26)

  This article explores discussions in the Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (NTvG), the Dutch Journal of Medicine, over the limits of medical confidentiality during the First World War. In the early twentieth century, ...
• ‘Spanish’ flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic 

  Haalboom, Floor (Igitur, 2014-11-26)

  At the time of the 1918–1919 ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic, influenza researchers did not just relate this disease to the human population, despite the focus of historians of medicine on its human aspects and meanings. In ...
• The First World War and Dutch Scientific Culture 

  Hoeneveld, Friso; Kloosterman, Ingrid; Abma, Ruud (Igitur, 2014-11-26)

  The centennial has revived attention for the First World War. Because of the Netherlands’ neutral position, the influence of the horrendous war in this nation has long been qualified as marginal. In the last two decades, ...
• Boekbesprekingen/Comptes Rendus 

  Verwaal, Ruben E; Deelstra, Hendrik (Igitur, 2014-08-04)
• Minimal Brain Damage/Dysfunction (MBD) en de ontwikkeling van de wetenschappelijke kinderstudie in Nederland, ca. 1950–1990 

  Bakker, Nelleke (Igitur, 2014-08-04)

  This paper discusses the reception in the Netherlands of Minimal Brain Damage/Dysfunction (MBD) and related labels for normally gifted children with learning disabilities and behavioural problems by child scientists of all ...
• De symboliek van het snuffelen. Hoe een luchtverontreinigingsmonitor uitgroeide tot nationaal symbool 

  Maas, Ad; Buijsman, Ed (Igitur, 2014-08-04)

  Recently, the Dutch national museum for the history of science and medicine, Museum Boerhaave in Leiden, acquired four air pollution monitors for its collection. These instruments were part of the Dutch national network ...
• Antonius Michels en de stichting van het ‘Institute for Molecular Physics’ aan de Universiteit van Maryland 

  Sengers, Jan V. (Igitur, 2014-08-04)

  The Van der Waals Laboratory for Molecular Physics of the University of Amsterdam was founded before World War II by A.M.J.F. Michels (1889–1969). This paper describes how after World War II Michels was also the founder ...
• Antropometrie als instrument voor de geneeskunst. Onderzoek en publicaties van Nederlandse medici (1849–1869) 

  Tassenaar, Vincent (Igitur, 2014-08-04)

  This research focuses on the Dutch publications about human height in the middle of the nineteenth century. Some of these articles, especially those of Johannes Zeeman, drew the attention of physicians and anthropometric ...

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