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Koen Vermeir is a CNRS Research Professor (CR1). As a historian and philosopher, he has contributed to a wide array of fields. His main interests are in the history of the early modern imagination and in the interaction between religion and technology. Additionally, he works on methodological topics and on science policy and science advice. After studies in theoretical physics, philosophy and history of science, in Leuven, Utrecht and Cambridge, he held research positions at the Fund of Scientific Research-Flanders, the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Harvard University, and Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Vermeir was visiting fellow at Cambridge University and Cornell University, and visiting professor at the ETH Zürich. Vermeir is founder of and responsible for the research unit Histoire culturelle et interdisciplinaire des techniques (SPHERE) ; co-responsible for the research unit Recherches interdisciplinaires en histoire et philosophe des sciences (SPHERE) ; and former founding director of LIPSS, a science studies platform at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He is currently member of the editorial board of the journal *Journal for Early Modern Studies*, the journal *Society and Politics* , the journal *Artefact : Histoire & techniques*, and the book series *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science* and *International Archives of the History of Ideas*. His work has been published in six different languages. Koen Vermeir is a member of the [Global Young Academy](https://globalyoungacademy.net/koen-vermeir/). In this context, he is leading a working group on practices of Research Evaluation, and is working on *Open Science*, *Science Advice*, and the history of Scientific Academies. He represents the GYA at various conferences and policy meetings and is actively engaged in science advice.

Publications

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Education and the Cultivation of the Early Modern Self: Cultura Animi as Self-Care in Juan Luis Vives

Koen Vermeir
Early Science and Medicine, 2023, Individuality, Self-Care, and Self-Preservation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Science, 28 (1), pp.63 - 94. ⟨10.1163/15733823-20230065⟩
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Barriers to Full Participation in the Open Science Life Cycle among Early Career Researchers

Natasha Gownaris , Koen Vermeir , Martin-Immanuel Bittner , Lasith Gunawardena , Sandeep Kaur-Ghumaan
CODATA Data Science Journal, 2022, 21 (1), pp.2. ⟨10.5334/dsj-2022-002⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-03927528v1
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Charlatan epistemology: As illustrated by a study of wonder-working in the late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic

Koen Vermeir
Science in Context, 2022, 33 (4), pp.363-384. ⟨10.1017/S0269889721000193⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-03927609v1
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Publizieren historischer Zeitschriften Ein Gespräch zwischen Herausgeber:innen

Beate Fricke , Johanna Gehmacher , Alix Heiniger , Katja Jana , Martin Lengwiler
Traverse. Revue d'Histoire/Zeitschrift für Geschichte, 2022, 1, pp.32-51
Article dans une revue halshs-03927937v1
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Opening up the History of Science

Koen Vermeir
Physis; rivista internazionale di storia della scienza, 2022, 57 (1), pp.49-66. ⟨10.1400/289108⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-03927486v1
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Centaurus : Past and Future

Koen Vermeir
Centaurus, 2021, 63 (4), pp.619-620. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12421⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-03508400v1

Centaurus at 70: Editors' perspectives

Koen Vermeir
Centaurus, 2020, 62 (1), pp.198-205. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12314⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-03097968v1

Research Funding Agencies Are Redefining Science. Early Career Researchers Will Have to Adapt

Koen Vermeir
Trends in the Sciences, 2020
Article dans une revue halshs-03098004v1

What about editors?

Koen Vermeir
Centaurus, 2020, 62 (1), pp.1-4. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12313⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-03097962v1

Editorial: Doing history in the time of COVID ‐19

Koen Vermeir
Centaurus, 2020, 62 (2), pp.219-222. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12319⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-03097965v1

Science for the Future: Young Scientists in the Face of Global Challenges

Koen Vermeir
Trends in the Sciences, 2020
Article dans une revue halshs-03097997v1

Celebrating 15 years of the European Society for the History of Science

Koen Vermeir
Centaurus, 2019, 60 (1-2), pp.1-2. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12213⟩
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Editorial

Koen Vermeir
Centaurus, 2019, 61 (1-2), pp.1-1. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12236⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-03097958v1

Fifteen years of the history of science in Europe: Personal reflections by the ESHS presidents

Koen Vermeir , Claude Debru , Robert Fox , Eberhard Knobloch , Helge Kragh
Centaurus, 2019, 60 (1-2), pp.104-123. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12204⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-02427494v1

Introduction: History of early astronomy in Centaurus

Jonathan Regier , Koen Vermeir
Centaurus, 2019, 61 (1-2), pp.139-142. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12256⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-03097954v1

Preface: Electricity and Imagination

Koen Vermeir
Centaurus, 2016, 57 (3), pp.129--130. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12098⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-01422138v1

Electricity and Imagination: Post-romantic Electrified Experience and the Gendered Body.

Koen Vermeir
Centaurus, 2016, 57 (3), pp.131--155. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12097⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-01422143v1
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Varieties of Wonder

Maarten van Dyck, , Koen Vermeir
Historia Mathematica, 2014, 41 (4), pp.1-28. ⟨10.1016/j.hm.2014.05.004⟩
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Review of: The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature

Koen Vermeir
Isis, 2014, 105 (2), pp.426--427
Article dans une revue halshs-01454112v1

Review of: Art and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands

Koen Vermeir
Centaurus, 2014, 56, pp.56--57
Article dans une revue halshs-01454115v1

Scientific Research: Commodities or Commons?

Koen Vermeir
Science & Education, 2013, 22 (10), pp.2485-2510. ⟨10.1007/s11191-012-9524-y⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-00770406v1
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Castelli in aria

Koen Vermeir
Lo Sguardo | Rivista di Filosofia Online, 2012, 10 (3), pp.99-124
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States of Secrecy

Koen Vermeir , Daniel Margócsy
British Journal for the History of Science, 2012, 45 (2), pp.153-164
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Openness versus Secrecy?

Koen Vermeir
British Journal for the History of Science, 2012, 45 (2), pp.165-188. ⟨10.1017/S0007087412000064⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-00609361v2
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The Dustbin of the Republic of Letters

Koen Vermeir
Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2012, 1 (1), pp.109-149
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Mise en image du spectacle et spectacularisation de l'image à l'âge baroque

Ralph Dekoninck, , Maarten Delbeke, , Annick Delfosse, , Koen Vermeir
Degrés : revue de synthèse à orientation sémiologique, 2012, 40 (151), pp.c1-c14
Article dans une revue halshs-00769841v1

Idols of the Imagination: Francis Bacon on the Imagination and the Medicine of the Mind

Sorana Corneanu , Koen Vermeir
Perspectives on Science, 2012, 20 (2), pp.183-206
Article dans une revue halshs-00769846v1

Malebranche et les pouvoirs de l'imagination

Raffaele Carbone , Koen Vermeir
Rivista di storia della filosofia, 2012, 67 (4), pp.661-669
Article dans une revue halshs-00769843v1
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Vampirisme, corps mastiquants et la force de l'imagination

Koen Vermeir
Camenae, 2010, 12, pp.1-16
Article dans une revue halshs-00641639v1
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Imagination between Physick and Philosophy

Koen Vermeir
Intellectual History Review, 2008, 18, pp.119-137. ⟨10.1080/17496970701819418⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-00641633v1
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Athanasius Kircher's Magical Instruments

Koen Vermeir
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2007, 38 (2), pp.363-400. ⟨10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.03.008⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-00641624v1
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The magic of the magic lantern (1660-1700)

Koen Vermeir
The British Journal for the History of Science, 2005, 38 (2), pp.127-159. ⟨10.1017/S0007087405006709⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-00644485v1
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The 'physical prophet' and the powers of the imagination. Part II

Koen Vermeir
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2005, 36 (1), pp.1-24. ⟨10.1016/j.shpsc.2004.12.008⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-00641622v1
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The 'physical prophet' and the powers of the imagination. Part I

Koen Vermeir
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2004, 35 (4), pp.561-591. ⟨10.1016/j.shpsc.2004.09.001⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-00641619v1

Knowledge and Imagination: Questions and Perspectives

Koen Vermeir
The Janus Face of the Early Modern Imagination, Sep 2016, Bucarest, Romania
Communication dans un congrès halshs-01422032v1

Optical Instruments in the Service of God: Light metaphors for the circulation of Jesuit knowledge in China

Koen Vermeir
4th International Conference of the ESHS, 2011, Barcelona, Spain. pp.333-337
Communication dans un congrès halshs-00770189v1
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Magnetic Theology as a Baroque Phenomenon

Koen Vermeir
"Magnetic Theology as a Baroque Phenomenon." for the Baroque Science Conference, Feb 2008, Sydney, Australia
Communication dans un congrès halshs-00756935v1

History of Early Astronomy

Koen Vermeir , Jonathan Regier
2020
Ouvrages halshs-03098010v1

Histories of epidemics in the time of COVID‐19

Koen Vermeir , Charters Erica
2020
Ouvrages halshs-03098013v1

History of Early Astronomy

Koen Vermeir
Ouvrages halshs-02427587v1

Cultures du spectacle baroque. Cadres, expériences et représentations des solennités religieuses entre Italie et anciens Pays-Bas

Koen Vermeir , Ralph Dekoninck, , Maarten Delbeke , Annick Delfosse , Caroline Heering
2019
Ouvrages halshs-02427503v1

L’Analogie et les techniques. Approches interdisciplinaires

Liliane Hilaire-Pérez , Sophie A. de Beaune , Koen Vermeir
CNRS Editions, 2017
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L'analogie dans les techniques

Sophie A. De Beaune , Liliane Hilaire‐pérez , Koen Vermeir
de Beaune, Sophie A. and Hilaire‐Pérez, Liliane and Vermeir, Koen. CNRS éditions, 2017
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L'analogie dans les techniques

Sophie A. de Beaune , Liliane Hilaire-Perez , Koen Vermeir
CNRS Editions, 2017, Coll. Alpha
Ouvrages halshs-01713674v1

Le livre technique avant le XXe siècle. À l'échelle du monde

Liliane Hilaire‐pérez , Valérie Nègre , Delphine Spicq , Koen Vermeir
Hilaire‐Pérez, Liliane and Nègre, Valérie and Spicq, Delphine and Vermeir, Koen. CNRS éditions, 2017
Ouvrages hal-01677047v1

Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Koen Vermeir , Jonathan Regier
Springer. 2016, Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, 978-3-319-41074-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-41075-3⟩
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Boundaries, Extents and Circulations. Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Koen Vermeir , Jonathan Regier
Vermeir, Koen and Regier, Jonathan. Springer, pp.273, 2016
Ouvrages halshs-01422139v1

Electricity and Imagination

Koen Vermeir
57 (3), pp.129--228, 2016
Ouvrages halshs-01422145v1

States of Secrecy. From Alchemy to the Atomic Bomb.

Koen Vermeir , Daniel Margócsy
Cambridge University Press, pp.130, 2012
Ouvrages halshs-00769833v1

The Science of Sensibility. Reading Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry

Koen Vermeir , Michael Deckard
Springer, pp.357, 2012, ⟨10.1007/978-94-007-2102-9⟩
Ouvrages halshs-00769830v1

Malebranche et l'imagination puissante.

Raffaele Carbone , Koen Vermeir
Franco Angeli Edizioni, pp.97, 2012
Ouvrages halshs-00769836v1
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The Art of Thinking

Sorana Corneanu , Koen Vermeir
The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, 1, Cambridge University Press, pp.149-166, 2023, ⟨10.1017/9781108333108.010⟩
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Preface

Koen Vermeir
Overlap – The no man’s land between art and science, 2020
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Introduction. La culture du spectacle en Italie et anciens Pays-Bas

Koen Vermeir , Ralph Dekoninck , Maarten Delbeke , Annick Delfosse , Caroline Heering
Cultures du spectacle baroque. Cadres, expériences et représentations des solennités religieuses entre Italie et anciens Pays-Bas, 2019
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-02427517v1
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Performing Emotions at the Canonization of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier in the Southern Low Countries

Ralph Dekoninck , Maarten Delbeke , Annick Delfosse , Koen Vermeir
Changing Hearts, Brill, pp.187-210, 2018, ⟨10.1163/9789004385191_010⟩
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Artes notariae et formulaires notariaux : les techniques de l'écriture des actes dans la seconde moitié du XVe siècle en Normandie

Isabelle Bretthauer , Liliane Hilaire-Pérez , Valérie Nègre , Delphine Spicq , Koen Vermeir
Le livre technique avant le XXe siècle à l’échelle du monde, CNRS éditions, pp.367-380, 2017, CNRS Alpha, 978-2-271-08655-6
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L'analogie, les techniques et les savoirs. Approches cognitives et historiques

Sophie A. De Beaune , Liliane Hilaire‐pérez , Koen Vermeir
de Beaune, Sophie A. and Hilaire‐Pérez, Liliane and Vermeir, Koen. L'analogie dans les techniques, CNRS éditions, pp.8--56, 2017
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« L’analogie, les techniques et les savoirs. Approches cognitives et historiques »

Liliane Hilaire-Pérez , Sophie A. de Beaune , Koen Vermeir
L'analogie et les techniques. Approches interdisciplinaires, pp.7-56, 2017
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04014419v1

Regards croisés sur le livre et les techniques avant le XXe siècle

Liliane Hilaire‐pérez , Valérie Nègre , Delphine Spicq , Koen Vermeir
Hilaire‐Pérez, Liliane and Nègre, Valérie and Spicq, Delphine and Vermeir, Koen. Le livre technique avant le XXe siècle. À l'échelle du monde, CNRS éditions, pp.5--40, 2017
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Historicizing Culture: A Revaluation of Early Modern Science and Culture

Koen Vermeir
Chemla, Karine and Fox Keller, Evelyn. Cultures without Culturalism, Duke University Press, pp.227--249, 2017
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Een filosofisch onderzoek naar de wetenschap van het gevoel

Koen Vermeir , Michael Funk Deckard
Colette, Maarten and De Hert, Paul and Kinneging, Andreas. Edmund Burke, ASP Editions, pp.211--246, 2017
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Avant Propos

Liliane Hilaire‐pérez , Valérie Nègre , Delphine Spicq , Koen Vermeir
Hilaire‐Pérez, Liliane and Nègre, Valérie and Spicq, Delphine and Vermeir, Koen. Le livre technique avant le XXe siècle. À l'échelle du monde, CNRS éditions, pp.3--4, 2017
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La spectacularité baroque dans les anciens Pays-Bas: Moyens et fins

Ralph Dekoninck , Maarten Delbeke , Annick Delfosse , Caroline Heering , Koen Vermeir
Bossu, Charles and Bracke, Wouter and Jacob, Alain and Lambeau, Sara and Leporati, Chiara. Alla Luce di Roma. I Disegni Scenografici di Scultori Fiamminghi e il Barocco Romano, De Luca Editori d'arte, pp.1--12, 2016
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01422148v1
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Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: An Introduction to Spatiality and the Early Modern Concept of Space

Jonathan Regier , Koen Vermeir
Vermeir, Koen and Regier, Jonathan. Boundaries, Extents and Circulations. Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer, pp.1--32, 2016, 978-3-319-41074-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-41075-3⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01422144v1

Early Modern Ideas of Space and Spatiality

Koen Vermeir , Jonathan Regier
Vermeir, Koen and Regier, Jonathan. Boundaries, Extents and Circulations. Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer, pp.vii -- xi, 2016
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01422137v1

Techniques, infrastructures globales et acteurs transnationaux

Koen Vermeir
Pérez, Liliane and Zakharova, Larissa. Les Techniques et la globalisation au XXe siècle, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp.269--279, 2016
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La reconstitution des sciences et des techniques

Koen Vermeir , Marie Thébaud-Sorger
Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane and Simon, Fabien and Thébaud-Sorger, Marie. L'Europe des sciences et des techniques. Un dialogue des savoirs, xve-xviiie siècle, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp.55--59, 2016
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01422140v1

Die Wiederherstellung von Pluto. Theatralität in frühneuzeitlichen alchemistischen Praxis

Koen Vermeir
Schramm, H. and Schwarte, L. and Lorber, M. Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum alchemicum, De Gruyter, pp.112--153, 2016
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01422147v1

Techniques et religion

Koen Vermeir
Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane and Simon, Fabien and Thébaud-Sorger, Marie. Un dialogue des savoirs. Les sciences et les techniques en Europe, xve-xviiie siècles, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp.487--494, 2016
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Techniques, rites, religion

Koen Vermeir
Carnino, Guillaume and Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane and Kobiljski, Aleksandra. Histoire des techniques. Mondes, sociétés, cultures XVIe-XVIIIe siècle, Presses universitaires de France, pp.397--414, 2016
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Religion, technology and the arts in the early modern period

Koen Vermeir
MPIWG Research Report, 2013/2014, 2015
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01454111v1

Guérir ceux qui ont la foi. Le mesmérisme et l'imagination historique

Koen Vermeir
Belhoste, Bruno and Edelman, Nicole. Le Mesmérisme en Contexte, Omniscience, pp.119--145; 283--290, 2015, 978-2-916097-57-2
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01454109v1

Tout dépend des circonstances. Superstition, lois de la nature et dissolution du préternaturel au tournant du XVIIIe siècle

Koen Vermeir
Christin, Olivier and Flückiger, Fabrice and Ghermani, Naima. Marie mondialisée: L'Atlas Marianus de Wilhelm Gumppenberg et les topographies sacrées de l'époque moderne, Éditions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses, pp.47--62, 2014
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01454113v1

Philosophy and Genealogy. Ways of writing the history of philosophy

Koen Vermeir
Lærke, Mogens and Schliesser, Eric and Smith, Justin E. H. Philosophy and Its History: New Essays on the Methods and Aims of Research in the History of Philosophy, Oxford University Press, pp.50--70, 2013
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01421957v1

Bio-bibliographical Note: Balthasar Bekker

Koen Vermeir
Dobre, Mihnea and Nyden, Tammy. Cartesian Empiricisms, Springer, pp.307--308, 2013
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01421956v1

Mechanical Philosophy in an Enchanted World. Cartesian Empiricism in Balthasar Bekker's Radical Reformation

Koen Vermeir
Dobre, Mihnea and Nyden, Tammy. Cartesian Empiricisms, Springer, pp.275--306, 2013
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01421955v1
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Philosophical Enquiries into the Science of Sensibility

Koen Vermeir , Michael Deckard
Koen Vermeir and Michael Funk Deckard. The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, Springer, pp.3-56, 2012
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-00609384v1

Preface: Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry in context, 250 years later

Koen Vermeir
The Science of Sensibility. Reading Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, Springer, pp.v-xx, 2012, International Archives of the History of Ideas
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-00770198v1
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Vampires as Creatures of the Imagination

Koen Vermeir
Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period., Brepols Publishers, pp.341-373, 2012
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-00609387v1

"Bent and Directed towards Him". Kircher's sunflower clock seen from a baroque perspective

Koen Vermeir
Science in the Age of Baroque, Springer, pp.37-65, 2012, International Archives of the History of Ideas
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-00770403v1
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CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE OR SUPERSTITION?

Koen Vermeir
Sven Dupré and Christoph Lüthy. Silent Messengers. The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries, LIT, pp.293-328, 2011
Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-00609394v1