K.G. van Manen (ed.), Lutheranen in de Lage Landen. Geschiedenis van een godsdienstige minderheid (ca. 1520-2004

Geschiedenis van de rekenkunst - van kerfstok tot computer

`De bevordering en volmaking der proefondervindelijke wijsbegeerte': de rol van het Bataafsch Genootschap te Rotterdam in de geschiedenis van de natuurwetenschappen, geneeskunde en techniek (1769–1988)

For all the obvious hazards and problems of using such a compilation, it is an extraordinary resource. It should surely provide the basis for a much-needed prosopography of the medical trade in the pre-reform era. The sheer proliferation ofnumbers (there are clearly well over 35,000 medical practitioners, in the narrow sense, listed here) provides ample confirmation of the arguments, recently a...

Het Coolsingelziekenhuis te Rotterdam (1839–1900): de ontwikkeling van een stedelijk ziekenhuis in de 19e eeuw

Its Finnish counterpart is more for the scholar. Its strength lies in its use of the inscriptions of doctors, written in both Greek and Latin, to give some idea of their social position, a favourite Finnish theme that goes back to Gummerus. Its conclusion modifies the optimistic conclusions of Kudlien, confirming that there is little evidence for great wealth among physicians, and, equally, non...

Boec van Medicinen in Dietsche: een Middelnederlandse Compilatie van medischfarmaceutische Literatuur

This is the kind of book which is given to a doctor, whether he is a gynaecologist or not, or to a midwife, particularly a midwifery teacher, for a birthday or Christmas present, and so it should have had a richer binding and more illustrations. An additional five or seven shillings on the price would not have deterred this class of purchaser and it would have made a much more attractive and du...

Van de Graaff Generator

In this work it was developed a Van de Graaff generator that we design and built and that is intended to be used in secondary schools for teaching basic principles of electrostatics, electromagnetic as well as a number of other applications. Today many schools laboratories and museums use this kind of generator for electrostatic demonstrations. Electrostatics was first noticed by the Greek phil...