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Recent Select Publications
“Nature in defence of Scripture. Physico-theology and experimental philosophy in the work of Bernard Nieuwentijt,” in K. van Berkel and A. Vanderjagt ed., The Book of Nature in Early Modern and Modern History. Leuven: Peeters, 2006 pp. 83-96.
“Albertus Leoninus (1543 -1614) and Copernicus’s ‘third motion’ of the earth,” Journal for the History of Astronomy 37 (2006) 101-109.
Kleine geschiedenis van de wetenschap. Amsterdam: Nieuwezijds, 2005; new edition 2007)
Huygens. De mathematisering van de werkelijkheid. Diemen: Veen magazines, 2004; new edition 2007).
“The formation of the Newtonian philosophy: the case of the Amsterdam mathematical amateurs,” British Journal for the History of Science 36 (2003) 183-200.
“Erschütterung und Bewältigung. Erdbebenkatastrophen in der frühen Neuzeit,” in M. Jakubowski-Tiessen & H. Lehmann, Um Himmels Willen. Religion in Katastrophenzeiten. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003. pp. 235-252.
The Calvinist Copernicans. The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750. Amsterdam: Edita KNAW, 2002.
“The Flood and the scientific revolution: Thomas Burnet’s system of natural providence,” in F. García Martinez & G.P. Luttikhuizen ed., Interpretations of the Flood. Leiden: Brill, 1999. pp. 150-166.
“Science and belief in Dutch history,” in K. van Berkel, A. Van Helden, L.C. Palm, ed., A History of Science in the Netherlands. Survey, themes and reference. Leiden: Brill, 1999. pp. 332-347.
“Subterranean fire. Changing theories of the earth during the Renaissance,” Early Science and Medicine 3 (1998) 323-347.
(with E.J. Atzema) “Specilla circularia: an unknown work by Johannes Hudde,” Studia Leibnitiana 27 (1995) 104-121.
(with J.A. van Maanen) “An unpublished autograph by Christiaan Huygens: his letter to David Gregory of 19 January 1694,” Annals of Science 49 (1992) 507-523.
“Le spinozisme en Hollande: le cercle de Tschirnhaus,” Cahiers Spinoza 6 (1991) 145-168.