The objective of the conference is to bring together historians of science and of knowledge working in different fields and on different epochs, in order to engage in a comparative discussion of forms and functions of knowledge that have been or are considered to be ‘weak’ in one of several possible senses – including epistemic, social,…

Met 3D scans op bezoek in de Egyptische koningsvallei Op dinsdag 13 juni 2017 organiseren Museum Boerhaave en het Lorentz Center een publiekslezing over het inzetten van 3D scans bij het documenteren en conserveren van graftombes van Farao’s in het oude Egypte. Onder de titel ‘Conservation facsimiles in Luxor’ gaat de Spaanse architect Carlos Bayod…

Cesare Pastorino will join the Vossius Center and the ERC ARTECHNE project in May for three months as a Research Fellow with his project ‘The Dense and Rare: Quantification of Matter and the Exchange of Practical and Learned Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’. About the researcher Cesare Pastorino is Gerda Henkel research fellow at the Technische…

Science and Art have long been closely intertwined in many ways, and still scientific work and production bears many traces of active and tacit artistic involvement. Of late, STS scholarship has turned to the Arts, not only as object of study but also, and more importantly perhaps, as a domain to learn from and with….