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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...