Overview

Books That Made History highlights twenty-five books published in Leiden or written by a Leiden scholar or alumnus, that have a strong connection to Leiden’s academic history, from the founding of Leiden University in 1575 to the present day. These books have a lasting, global impact on our way of thinking, and are relevant up to this day. The books are described from a contemporary perspective in order to elicit the reader's sense of wonder that the contemporary ideas and insights anchored in the books are inextricably linked to the publication in which they were first made public to the world.

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Author:   Kasper van Ommen ,  Garrelt Verhoeven
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004523425

ISBN 10:   9004523421
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   17 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Carel Stolker, Preface: Bastion of freedom Els M. Jacobs, The best mates sail at sea Lucas Jansz Waghenaer, Spieghel der Zeevaert, Leiden 1584-1585 Kasper van Ommen, The Einstein of the sixteenth century J.J. Scaliger, Opus de emendatione temporum, castigatius & multis partibus auctius, Leiden 1598 Jan Waszink, International Law of the Sea Hugo Grotius, Mare Liberum sive de Iure quod Batavis competit ad Indicana commercia, Leiden 1609 Erik-Jan Bos, Prime examples of human reasoning Rene Descartes, Discours de la methode, Leiden 1637 Anna-Luna Post, Observations and experiments Galileo Galilei, Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, Leiden 1638 Pieta van Beek, “The aptitude of the Female Sex” Anna Maria van Schurman, Dissertatio de ingenii muliebris ad doctrinam et meliores litteras aptitudine, Leiden 1641 Mariana Francozo, The lasting impact of a short-lived colony Willem Piso and Georg Markgraf, Historia naturalis Brasiliae: in qua non tantum plantae et animalia, sed et indigenarum morbi, ingenia et mores describuntur et iconibus supra quingentas illustrantur, Leiden and Amsterdam 1648 Arnoud Vrolijk, The key to the Orient Jacobus Golius, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, Leiden 1653 Marika Keblusek, Everything in one room Ole Worm, Museum Wormianum, seu historia rerum rariorum, Leiden 1655 Dirk-Jan de Kooter, The States-General Bible as shared heritage Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn, Biblia, dat is: De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments, Leiden 1637 Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, The perfect clock Christiaan Huygens, Horologium Oscillatorium, Paris 1673 Mart van Lieburg and Henk Punt, A world-class medical textbook Herman Boerhaave, Institutiones medicae, Leiden 1707 Gerda van Uffelen, The overview of all things: a glorious idea Carolus Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, sive regna tria Naturae systematica proposita per classes, ordines, genera, et species, Leiden 1735 Karwan Fatah-Black, A struggle on two fronts Jacobus Capitein, De servitude, libertati christianae non contraria, Leiden 1742 Pancras C.W. Hogendoorn, The perfect representation of the human body Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, Leiden 1747 Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma, An ode to archaeology Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens, De Laudibus Archaeologiae, Leiden 1818 Kuniko Forrer, A glimpse of the Far East Philipp Franz von Siebold, Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan und dessen Neben- und Schutzlandern Jezo mit den sudlichen Kurilen, Krafto, KooraI und den Liukiu-Inseln 1832-1852, Leiden 1832 Wim Voermans, Uncompromisingly in the right Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Bijdrage tot de herziening der Grondwet, Leiden 1848 Wim van den Doel, “Not just books as evidence” Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Bilder aus Mekka, Leiden 1888-1889 Rick Honings, The first Indonesian doctorate Hoesein Djajadiningrat, Critische beschouwing van de Sadjarah Bantĕn, Haarlem 1913 Dirk van Delft, Einstein and the curvature of space-time Typescript with notes by Albert Einstein, published in Zeitschrift fur Mathematik und Physik, Leipzig 1914 Sjoerd van Faassen, Radical cleansing of art De Stijl, Maandblad voor de moderne beeldende vakken, 1917-1932 Anton van der Lem, An exuberant book from calm Leiden Johan Huizinga, Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen, Haarlem 1919 Carl Haarnack and Garrelt Verhoeven, Pirate copy of a manifesto Anton de Kom, Wij slaven van Suriname. Stencilled reprint of the first edition of the book from 1934, produced by Surinamese students in Leiden using the copy in Leiden University Library, 1969 Nicoline van der Sijs, In search of lost time: the WNT as a Dutch language museum Matthias de Vries, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, The Hague and Leiden, 1882-1998; Aanvullingen, 2001 Dirk Engberts, Between life and death H.A.H. van Till-d’Aulnis de Bourouill, Medisch-juridische aspecten van het einde van het menselijk leven, Deventer 1970 Pieter Slaman, Epilogue: The scholarly city About the authors Index of names

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Kasper van Ommen, Ph.D., is curator of Western Printed Works & Coordinator of the Scaliger Institute at Leiden University Libraries. Garrelt Verhoeven, MA, is Head Curator and Head of the Department of Curators of the Special Collections of Leiden University Libraries.

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