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Origin of 'medieval' sea charts disproven

A reconstruction of a pivotal notion in Stoicism, starting from two extant Stoic definitions, 'knowledge of human and divine matters' and 'fitting expertise'.

The case studies in this volume juxtapose instances of knowledge exchange across a variety of fields usually studied in isolation.

Noortje Jacobs is the winner of the Descartes-Huygens thesis award for science and university history 2013.

Isis, the leading international journal on the history of science, moves to the Descartes Centre at Utrecht University.

The new web tool ePistolarium gives free access to 20,000 letters by 17th-century scientists, such as René Descartes and Constantijn.

Ernst-Otto Onnasch published a letter by Immanuel Kant in which he warns for governmental influence on the university.

Second volume in the ‘Reinholdiana’ series appeared: Wille, Willkür, Freiheit. Reinholds Freiheitskonzeption im Kontext der Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts.

‘God in the Age of Science?’ is a critical examination of strategies for the philosophical defence of religious belief.