Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts

Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis works at the University of Twente and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His background is in cultural history of early modern exact sciences, in particular optics and other knowledge practices of light and color. In the history of knowledge he pursues projects on the dynamics of transfer and the valuation of knowledge.Andreas Weber is an assistant professor in the department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies (STePS) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the history of natural history and chemistry in the context of the former Dutch empire in insular Southeast Asia.Huib Zuidervaart worked as a senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands in Amsterdam. His main topic of research is the history of scientific instruments, institutions and collections.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 The Netherlands as a Laboratory of Knowing: Introduction to Locations of Knowledge in Dutch ContextsFokko Jan Dijksterhuis and Andreas WeberPart 1: Cities2 Science in the Theatre of TownsFokko Jan Dijksterhuis3 The ‘Duytsche Mathematique’ and Leiden Family Networks, 1600–1620Gerhard Wiesenfeldt4 The Middelburg Theatrum Anatomicum: A Location of Knowledge and Culture in an Early Urban ContextHuib J. ZuidervaartPart 2: Connections5 Breyne’s Botany: (Re-)locating Nature and Knowledge in Danzig (circa 1660–1730)Alette Fleischer6 An Amphibious Science: Where Storms Took ShapeAzadeh Achbari7 Science to Bring the Nation Together: The Formation of Nomadic Congresses in the Netherlands and FlandersIlja Nieuwland8 Between Openness and Classification: Early Dutch Ultracentrifuge Development in International ContextAbel StreeflandPart 3: Transformations9 The Disputation Hall in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic: An Urban Location of KnowledgeDirk Van Miert10 The Lorentz Transformation of a MuseumMartin P.M. Weiss11 Scientists in Cowsheds: Disputes Over Hygienic Milk Production in the Netherlands, 1918–1928Floor Haalboom12 Blending Research: Linking Dutch Industrial and Academic Polymer Laboratories, 1940–1980Marijn J. HollestelleIndex