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A Monument Against Fake News: The Planetarium of Eise Eisinga

9 September 2021

The oldest working planetarium in the world can be found in Franeker in the Dutch province of Friesland: the Royal Eise Eisinga Planetarium. The Netherlands wants this unique planetarium to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The life’s work of Eisinga (1744–1828) is a monument of the

Christiaan Huygens, the Versatile but Forgotten Scientist

3 February 2021

Elderly Dutch people will remember him from the 25 Guilder banknote, but many have no idea who their compatriot Christiaan Huygens was. Yet, the seventeenth-century astronomer and inventor was one of the most important scientists the Netherlands has ever produced. A new biography gives Huygens the c

What Tree Rings and Core Samples Tell Us About Our World

19 November 2020

Those who know where to look can read the history of the planet and the human race in trees and landscapes. Two researchers from the Low Countries, Salomon Kroonenberg and Valerie Trouet, tell the story of the earth, our past and perhaps also our future. Trouet's book, Tree Story: The History of The

Ghent University Museum Shows the Beauty and Doubt of Science

2 October 2020

Flanders welcomes another ambitious new museum, the Ghent University Museum (GUM). The GUM does not set out to display a number of scientific truths. Rather, it wants to demonstrate how doubt and beauty are part of the scientific process, by means of a selection of objects from the university’s co

Between Humans and Atoms. H.A. Lorentz, Spiritual Father of Einstein

17 July 2020

Thanks to two biographies published at the same time, the Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner Hendrik Lorentz, who is remarkably unknown, particularly to non-naturalists in Flanders, finally gets the attention he deserves.

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