Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University), Vasileios Syros (Academy of Finland) and Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University) will soon be visiting the ARTECHNE project team. All guest researchers have been granted a Descartes Senior Research Fellowship for three months. The Descartes Centre offers fellowships to promote intellectual exchange and collaboration in the history and/or the philosophy of the…

Starting in October, Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen will receive a grant from NWO for her PhD project ‘Everlasting Flowers Between the Pages: Botanical Watercolors in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries’. Sven Dupré will supervise her PhD dissertation. The recent embrace of citizen science recognizes non-experts as important producers of knowledge. To understand the historical grounds of how…

The June 2018 edition of Isis has just been published online, containing an introduction by Sven Dupré on ‘Science and Practices of Translation’. Historically speaking, scientists have lived and worked in a multilingual world. Given that, in such a world, translation is simply part of (scientific) life, it is all the more remarkable that practices of…

The June 2018 edition of Isis has just been published online, containing Marieke Hendriksen’s latest article: M.M.A. Hendriksen, “Criticizing chrysopoeia? Alchemy, chemistry, academics and satire in the Northern Netherlands, 1650-1750,” Isis. Vol. 109:2, June 2018, pp. 235-253. This essay argues that we should consider perceptions of and associations with alchemical language and practices in academic and…

Colour reproductions of historical recipes and dialogue about practical skills – two-day workshop Eight natural sources of red dye, namely brazilwood, madder, safflower, annatto, lac dye, American cochineal and kermes were used to dye silk with complex historical recipes. The main aim of the workshop was to offer participants a thorough understanding on the importance of…