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Expo Wiener Kreis at the UCL

Until 30 June, you can visit the exhibition The Vienna Circle. Exact thinking in demented times. The ‘Vienna Circle’, also known as the ‘Wiener Kreis’, included thinkers such as Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath. This group of intellectuals had a significant influence on logical empiricism and contemporary engineering sciences. The exhibition illustrates the history of this learned society and it traces the lives of its protagonists, who were victims of the ravages of populism and anti-Semitic persecution that struck Vienna in the 1930s.

Wonderkamer 11
World War II is perhaps the most studied subject in history. But when it comes to science in the Low Countries, we actually know little about this period. The new issue of Wonderkamer sheds light on science in the period from 1940 to 1945 and how scientists experienced the war and occupation. Get your copy now via the link below.


Recent Publications


American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration. Pragmatism, Logical Empiricism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory.

Sander Verhaegh


A phenomenological account of mathematical modes of intuition.

Bruno Leclercq


What Will Happen to Humanity in a Million Years? Gilbert Hottois and the Temporality of Technoscience.

Massimiliano Simons


Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750). A Research Companion.

Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans & Raf Van Rooy (ed.)


Rond wetenschap verenigd. Van Vlaamse Leergangen tot Academische Stichting Leuven 1924-2024.

Ruben Mantels


Les grands géologues de Belgique. Nés entre 1834 et 1937.

Léon Dejonghe


Journal for the History of Knowledge 5. Special Issue: Mapping Uncertain Knowledge.

Djoeke van Netten (ed.)


Dealing with Medical Uncertainty in and through the History of Medicine.

Pieter Dhondt, Sari Aalto, Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen & Saara-Maija Kontturi (ed.)


Leuven’s College Laboratories. An Urban Walking Guide through 600 Years of Science.

Geert Vanpaemel


Franz Cumont : pater patrum of the modern study of the oriental mystery cults.

Danny Praet & Annelies Lannoy


In het kielzog van de Belgica: KBR brengt de Belgische poolexpedities tot leven via storytelling software.

Imke Hansen


Physics in Minerva’s Academy. Early to Mid-Eighteenth-Century Appropriations of Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy at the University of Leiden and in the Dutch Republic at Large, 1687–c.1750.

Steffen Ducheyne


Wonderkamer 10: De zeven hoofdzonden van de wetenschap.



Multispecies History of Science.

Raf De Bont


Patience, diligence, and humility: epistemic virtues and chemistry in the eighteenth century Dutch Republic.

Pieter Beck
In the spotlight


Oratio De Utilitate Studii Historiae Scientiarum Physicarum


Orangerie Gand

On June 8 1821, Franz-Peter Cassel, professor of botany and the second rector of the newly founded State University of Ghent, died. His 1819 rectoral address was an ardent plea for the study of the history of science, at the same time coloured by the views of his time. For Cassel, history of science taught how ideas had come about, how they had managed to overcome initial opposition, and how they had finally triumphed. He considered the history of science as a story of progress. No less important was the moral example of the persistent and determined scholar. For the young scientist, the Ghent rector argued, history was a life lesson. Follow the link below to read more about Cassel and his views on the history of science.


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