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170 years ago the first international statistical congress took place in Brussels. It was principally organised by astronomer and statistician [[Quetelet, Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874)|Adolphe Quetelet]], who envisioned a standardisation of European units of measurement to facilitate collaborative research between nations. Following the link below you can find everything on Bestor concerning mathematics.  
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Revision as of 11:38, 16 October 2023

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CFP: Young Researchers Days in Logic, History and Philosophy of Science VIII
On 23 and 24 November the eighth installment of the young researchers days, organised by the National committee for logic, history and philosophy of science and the Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science will take place. The call for papers is opened and porposals can be submitted until 20 October. Click the link below for more information.


Integrating the History and Philosophy of Biodiversity
On 20 and 21 October the workshop on Integrating the "History and Philosophy of Biodiversity: Narratives of Diversity, Extinction, Conflict and Value" will take place. Click the link below for more information.


Looking for… THE END OF THE WORLD! A climate expedition aboard the ‘Belgica’
The King Baudouin Foundation is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the scientific expedition aboard the Belgica, by inviting visitors to the BELvue Museum to embark on a climate expedition. The exhibition can be visited until 4 February.


Recent Publications


volume 16 de la Nouvelle Biographie nationale

Académie Royale de Belgique


La section italienne à l’Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles en 1935: vitrine du régime fasciste ou miroir des industries?

Serena Pacchiani

Jean Capart, père de l’égyptologie belge
Agnès Pirlot


Making Belgian Big Science: A History of the MYRRHA Research Reactor (1994—2010)
Hein Brookhuis


Taking the University to the People. The Role of Lantern Lectures in Extramural Adult Education in Early Twentieth-Century Brussels and Antwerp
Margo Buelens-Terryn


Il n’est sagesse sans folie:La vie singulière de François Englert, Prix Nobel. Chronique en dix épisodes, un prologue et un épilogue
Danielle Losman


Small and great stories of the Geological Survey of Belgium
Kris Welkenhuysen & Vanessa M.A. Heyvaert (eds.)


Théodore Mann. Savoir et pouvoir: Un théoricien du climat à l'Académie de Bruxelles au XVIIIe siècle
Muriel Collart


Transforming Big Science in Belgium: Management Consultants and the Reorganization of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), 1980–1990
Hein Brookhuis


Better Appreciating the Scale of It: Lemaître and de Sitter at the BAAS Centenary
Siska De Baerdemaeker and Mike D. Schneider


Adolphe Quetelet: Passeur d'idées
Jean-Jacques Droesbeke


Medical histories of Belgium: New narratives on health, care and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Joris Vandendriessche & Benoît Majerus (Eds.)
In the spotlight


Astronomy


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It has already been five years since the International Astronomical Union voted to formally change the name of "Hubble's law" to the "Hubble-Lemaître law" in order to acknowledge the scientific contributions of Georges Lemaître to the scientific theory of the expansion of the universe. To celebrate this recognition of the father of the big-bang model and modern cosmology, you can find everything on bestor about astronomy by following the link below.


Stories



History of Science in Belgium


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