Prof. dr. H.F. Cohen

Emeritus Professor
General
h.f.cohen@uu.nl

I would like to refer you to my website www.hfcohen.com for a more ample and also thematically more insightful selection of my publications.

Highlighted publications

Cohen, H. F. (2009). The Rise of Modern Science as a Fundamental Pre-Condition for the Industrial Revolution. In Global History (pp. 107-132). StudienVerlag. http://www.univie.ac.at/oezg/OeZG092.html
Cohen, H. F. (2017). Enlarging the picture, enlarging the audience: response to my three critics. Metascience, 26, 373-380. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0217-7
Cohen, H. F. (2010). Isaac Newton en het ware weten. Bert Bakker.
Cohen, H. F. (2016). Het knagende weten. Bert Bakker.
Cohen, H. F. (2010). How Modern Science Came Into the World. Four Civilizations, One 17th Century Breakthrough. Amsterdam University Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/238639/HowModSci%2520tekst%2520gelijk%2520met%25201e%2520druk.pdf?sequence=1

Publications

2020

Professional publications

Cohen, H. F. (2020). De ideale universiteit: Ontwerp van een uitvoerbaar alternatief. Prometheus.

2019

Scholarly publications

Cohen, H. F., & Prins, J. (2019). Music, Philosophy and Science. In The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music (pp. 439-471). Cambridge University Press [etc.]. https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511675874.014

2018

Scholarly publications

Cohen, H. F. (2018). Stock and Bulk in the Latest Newton Scholarship. British Journal for the History of Science, 51(4), 687–701. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087418000924
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/425800/HFC_essay_review_three_Newton_books_author_s_final_version.pdf?sequence=1

2017

Scholarly publications

Cohen, H. F. (2017). Enlarging the picture, enlarging the audience: response to my three critics. Metascience, 26, 373-380. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0217-7

Professional publications

Cohen, H. F. (2017). Hendrik Cohen (1879-1945) als vroeg historicus van de farmacie. In E. van Gelder, E. Jorink, I. Nieuwland, M. Rijks, & A. Spruit (Eds.), Dingen die ergens toe dienen: Verhalen over materiele cultuur van wetenschap (pp. 41-43). Uitgeverij Verloren.

2016

Scholarly publications

Cohen, H. F. (2016). The ‘Mathematization of Nature': The Making of a Concept, and How It Has Fared in Later Years. In V. Remmert, M. Schneider, & H. Kragh Sorensen (Eds.), Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries (pp. 143-160). Birkhäuser Mathematik. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39649-1

Professional publications

Cohen, H. F. (2016). Het knagende weten. Bert Bakker.

2015

Scholarly publications

Cohen, F. (2015). From Philosophia Naturalis to Science, From Latin to the Vernacular. In J. Bloemendal (Ed.), Bilingual Europe: Latin and Vernacular Cultures, Examples of Bilingualism and Multilingualism c. 1300-1800 (pp. 144-160). (Brill Studies in Intellectual History). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004289635_010

2014

Scholarly publications

Cohen, H. F. (2014). The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century: Not Separate Yet Unequal? In R. Bod, J. Maat, & T. Weststeijn (Eds.), The Making of the Humanities: Vol. 3: The Modern Humanities (pp. 43-52). Amsterdam University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt12877vs.2
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/321360/pages.pdf?sequence=1

2013

Professional publications

Cohen, H. F. (2013). Two New Conceptions of the Scientific Revolution Compared. Historically Speaking, 14(2), 24-26.
Cohen, H. F. (2013). Honderd jaar wetenschapsgeschiedenis in Nederland. Een persoonlijk getinte schets. Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps-en Universiteitsgeschiedenis, 6(3/4), 187-196. http://www.gewina-studium.nl/index.php/studium/article/view/URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1-113912

2012

Scholarly publications

Cohen, H. F. (2012). ‘From West to East, from East to West? Early Science between Civilizations’. Early Science and Medicine, 17(2012), 339-350.
Cohen, H. F. (2012). ‘La révolution scientifique, un concept repensé’. In V. Jullien, & E. Nicolaidis (Eds.), Europe et sciences modernes. Histoire d’un engendrement mutuel (pp. 183-198). Peter Lang Verlag.

Professional publications

Cohen, H. F., & van Helden, A. (2012). Voorwoord. In Galileo Galilei (vertaler: Hans van den Berg), Dialoog over de twee voornaamste wereldsystem (pp. 7-27). Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep.

2011

Professional publications

Cohen, H. F. (2011). De dubbele horizon van de moderne natuurwetenschap. De Gids, (1034), 940-951.

2010

Scholarly publications

Cohen, H. F. (2010). ‘Music As Science and As Art — The 16th/17th Century Destruction of Cosmic Harmony’. In R. Bod., J. Maat, & T. Weststeijn (Eds.), The Making of the Humanities. Vol. 1: Early Modern Europe. (pp. 59-71). Amsterdam uniersity Press.
Cohen, H. F. (2010). Isaac Newton en het ware weten. Bert Bakker.
Cohen, H. F. (2010). How Modern Science Came Into the World. Four Civilizations, One 17th Century Breakthrough. Amsterdam University Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/238639/HowModSci%2520tekst%2520gelijk%2520met%25201e%2520druk.pdf?sequence=1

2009

Scholarly publications

Cohen, H. F. (2009). The Rise of Modern Science as a Fundamental Pre-Condition for the Industrial Revolution. In Global History (pp. 107-132). StudienVerlag. http://www.univie.ac.at/oezg/OeZG092.html
Cohen, H. F. (2009). Antwoord aan mijn critici. Studium, 2(3), 168-177.
Cohen, H. F. (2009). Alexandre Koyré - Kritisch denkerslexicon. In . (pp. 1-15). Veenmagazines.

2008

Popularising publications

Cohen, H. F. (2008). Wie las nou de oude Grieken. NRC Handelsblad, 7-7.

2007

Scholarly publications

Cohen, H. F. (2007). Reconceptualizing the Scientific Revolution. European Review, 14(4), 491-502.
Cohen, H. F. (2007). De herschepping van de wereld. De moderne natuurwetenschap verklaard. Bert Bakker.

Professional publications

Cohen, H. F. (2007). Een exact leven: Christiaan Huygens was een kleurloos persoon, maar zijn werk heeft geniale trekken . Academische boekengids, 61, 8-9.

Popularising publications

Cohen, H. F. (2007). Verrijzenis van een vlinder. NRC Handelsblad, 5-1-2007, 27-27.
Cohen, H. F. (2007). Een doorbraak in de polder. Studie over de rol van 17de-eeuws Nederland in de moderne natuur¬wetenschap. NRC Handelsblad, 34-34.

Other output

Cohen, H. F. (2007). Krasse taal in Utrechts aula. Christendom en Islambeschaving in hun verhouding tot het ontstaan van de moderne natuurwetenschap. Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht.