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    Koen Vermeir (CNRS)

    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. 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.

    Journal articles28 documents

    • Koen Vermeir. Editorial: Doing history in the time of COVID ‐19. Centaurus, Wiley, 2020, 62 (2), pp.219-222. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12319⟩. ⟨halshs-03097965⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. What about editors?. Centaurus, Wiley, 2020, 62 (1), pp.1-4. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12313⟩. ⟨halshs-03097962⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Research Funding Agencies Are Redefining Science. Early Career Researchers Will Have to Adapt. Trends in the Sciences, Science Council of Japan, 2020. ⟨halshs-03098004⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Science for the Future: Young Scientists in the Face of Global Challenges. Trends in the Sciences, Science Council of Japan, 2020. ⟨halshs-03097997⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Centaurus at 70: Editors' perspectives. Centaurus, Wiley, 2020, 62 (1), pp.198-205. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12314⟩. ⟨halshs-03097968⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Celebrating 15 years of the European Society for the History of Science. Centaurus, Wiley, 2019, 60 (1-2), pp.1-2. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12213⟩. ⟨halshs-02427491⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Editorial. Centaurus, Wiley, 2019, 61 (1-2), pp.1-1. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12236⟩. ⟨halshs-03097958⟩
    • Jonathan Regier, Koen Vermeir. Introduction: History of early astronomy in Centaurus. Centaurus, Wiley, 2019, 61 (1-2), pp.139-142. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12256⟩. ⟨halshs-03097954⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Claude Debru, Robert Fox, Eberhard Knobloch, Helge Kragh, et al.. Fifteen years of the history of science in Europe: Personal reflections by the ESHS presidents. Centaurus, Wiley, 2019, 60 (1-2), pp.104-123. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12204⟩. ⟨halshs-02427494⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Preface: Electricity and Imagination. Centaurus, Wiley, 2016, 57 (3), pp.129--130. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12098⟩. ⟨halshs-01422138⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Electricity and Imagination: Post-romantic Electrified Experience and the Gendered Body.. Centaurus, Wiley, 2016, 57 (3), pp.131--155. ⟨10.1111/1600-0498.12097⟩. ⟨halshs-01422143⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Review of: The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature. Isis, University of Chicago Press, 2014, 105 (2), pp.426--427. ⟨halshs-01454112⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Review of: Art and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands. Centaurus, Wiley, 2014, 56, pp.56--57. ⟨halshs-01454115⟩
    • Maarten van Dyck,, Koen Vermeir. Varieties of Wonder. Historia Mathematica, Elsevier, 2014, 41 (4), pp.1-28. ⟨10.1016/j.hm.2014.05.004⟩. ⟨halshs-01021908⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Scientific Research: Commodities or Commons?. Science & Education, 2013, 22 (10), pp.2485-2510. ⟨10.1007/s11191-012-9524-y⟩. ⟨halshs-00770406⟩
    • Ralph Dekoninck,, Maarten Delbeke,, Annick Delfosse,, Koen Vermeir. Mise en image du spectacle et spectacularisation de l'image à l'âge baroque. Degrés : revue de synthèse à orientation sémiologique, Helbo, 2012, 40 (151), pp.c1-c14. ⟨halshs-00769841⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Castelli in aria: immaginazione e spirito della natura in Henry More. Lo Sguardo | Rivista di Filosofia Online, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (2016) ; Gaffi Editore (2008), 2012, 10 (3), pp.99-124. ⟨halshs-00750564⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. The Dustbin of the Republic of Letters: Pierre Bayle's "Dictionaire" as an encyclopedic palimpsest of errors. Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2012, 1 (1), pp.109-149. ⟨halshs-00750563⟩
    • Sorana Corneanu, Koen Vermeir. Idols of the Imagination: Francis Bacon on the Imagination and the Medicine of the Mind. Perspectives on Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2012, 20 (2), pp.183-206. ⟨halshs-00769846⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Openness versus Secrecy?: Historical and Historiographical Remarks. British Journal for the History of Science, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012, 45 (2), pp.165-188. ⟨10.1017/S0007087412000064⟩. ⟨halshs-00609361v2⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Daniel Margócsy. States of Secrecy: An Introduction. British Journal for the History of Science, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012, 45 (2), pp.153-164. ⟨halshs-00605662⟩
    • Raffaele Carbone, Koen Vermeir. Malebranche et les pouvoirs de l'imagination. Rivista di storia della filosofia, Franco Angeli, 2012, 67 (4), pp.661-669. ⟨halshs-00769843⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Vampirisme, corps mastiquants et la force de l'imagination : Analyse des premiers traités sur les vampires (1659-1755). Camenae, Centre Guillaume Budé (composante de l'Equipe d'accueil 4081 « Rome et ses renaissances »), 2010, 12, pp.1-16. ⟨halshs-00641639⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Imagination between Physick and Philosophy: On the Central Role of the Imagination in the Work of Henry More (1614-1687). Intellectual History Review, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008, 18, pp.119-137. ⟨10.1080/17496970701819418⟩. ⟨halshs-00641633⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Athanasius Kircher's Magical Instruments: An Essay on Science, Religion and Applied Metaphysics (1602-1680). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Elsevier, 2007, 38 (2), pp.363-400. ⟨10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.03.008⟩. ⟨halshs-00641624⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. The magic of the magic lantern (1660-1700): on analogical demonstration and the visualization of the invisible. The British Journal for the History of Science, 2005, 38 (2), pp.127-159. ⟨10.1017/S0007087405006709⟩. ⟨halshs-00644485⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. The 'physical prophet' and the powers of the imagination. Part II: a case-study on dowsing and the naturalisation of the moral, 1685-1710. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Elsevier, 2005, 36 (1), pp.1-24. ⟨10.1016/j.shpsc.2004.12.008⟩. ⟨halshs-00641622⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. The 'physical prophet' and the powers of the imagination. Part I: a case-study on prophecy, vapours and the imagination (1685 -1710). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Elsevier, 2004, 35 (4), pp.561-591. ⟨10.1016/j.shpsc.2004.09.001⟩. ⟨halshs-00641619⟩

    Conference papers3 documents

    • Koen Vermeir. Knowledge and Imagination: Questions and Perspectives. The Janus Face of the Early Modern Imagination, Sep 2016, Bucarest, Romania. ⟨halshs-01422032⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Optical Instruments in the Service of God: Light metaphors for the circulation of Jesuit knowledge in China. 4th International Conference of the ESHS, 2011, Barcelona, Spain. pp.333-337. ⟨halshs-00770189⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Magnetic Theology as a Baroque Phenomenon. "Magnetic Theology as a Baroque Phenomenon." for the Baroque Science Conference, Feb 2008, Sydney, Australia. ⟨halshs-00756935⟩

    Books4 documents

    • Koen Vermeir. History of Early Astronomy. 2019, ⟨10.1111/(ISSN)1600-0498⟩. ⟨halshs-02427587⟩
    • Sophie A. Beaune, Liliane Hilaire‐pérez, Koen Vermeir. L'analogie dans les techniques. de Beaune, Sophie A. and Hilaire‐Pérez, Liliane and Vermeir, Koen. CNRS éditions, 2017. ⟨hal-01677048⟩
    • Liliane Hilaire‐pérez, Valérie Nègre, Delphine Spicq, Koen Vermeir. Le livre technique avant le XXe siècle. À l'échelle du monde. Hilaire‐Pérez, Liliane and Nègre, Valérie and Spicq, Delphine and Vermeir, Koen. CNRS éditions, 2017. ⟨hal-01677047⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Jonathan Regier. Boundaries, Extents and Circulations. Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy. Vermeir, Koen and Regier, Jonathan. Springer, pp.273, 2016. ⟨halshs-01422139⟩

    Book sections28 documents

    • Koen Vermeir. Preface. Overlap – The no man’s land between art and science, 2020. ⟨halshs-03098280⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Ralph Dekoninck, Maarten Delbeke, Annick Delfosse, Caroline Heering. Introduction. La culture du spectacle en Italie et anciens Pays-Bas. Cultures du spectacle baroque. Cadres, expériences et représentations des solennités religieuses entre Italie et anciens Pays-Bas, 2019. ⟨halshs-02427517⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Ralph Dekoninck, Maarten Delbeke, Annick Delfosse, And Koen Vermeir. Performing Emotions at the Canonization of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier in the Southern Low Countries. Changing Hearts, Brill, pp.187-210, 2018, ⟨10.1163/9789004385191_010⟩. ⟨halshs-02427485⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Michael Funk Deckard. Een filosofisch onderzoek naar de wetenschap van het gevoel. Colette, Maarten and De Hert, Paul and Kinneging, Andreas. Edmund Burke, ASP Editions, pp.211--246, 2017. ⟨hal-01677044⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Historicizing Culture: A Revaluation of Early Modern Science and Culture. Chemla, Karine and Fox Keller, Evelyn. Cultures without Culturalism, Duke University Press, pp.227--249, 2017. ⟨hal-01677046⟩
    • Isabelle Bretthauer, Liliane Hilaire-Perez, Valérie Nègre, Delphine Spicq, Koen Vermeir. Artes notariae et formulaires notariaux : les techniques de l'écriture des actes dans la seconde moitié du XVe siècle en Normandie. 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. ⟨hal-02293961⟩
    • Sophie A. Beaune, Liliane Hilaire‐pérez, Koen Vermeir. L'analogie, les techniques et les savoirs. Approches cognitives et historiques. de Beaune, Sophie A. and Hilaire‐Pérez, Liliane and Vermeir, Koen. L'analogie dans les techniques, CNRS éditions, pp.8--56, 2017. ⟨hal-01677050⟩
    • Liliane Hilaire‐pérez, Valérie Nègre, Delphine Spicq, Koen Vermeir. Regards croisés sur le livre et les techniques avant le XXe siècle. 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. ⟨hal-01677049⟩
    • Liliane Hilaire‐pérez, Valérie Nègre, Delphine Spicq, Koen Vermeir. Avant Propos. 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. ⟨hal-01677045⟩
    • Ralph Dekoninck, Maarten Delbeke, Annick Delfosse, Caroline Heering, Koen Vermeir. La spectacularité baroque dans les anciens Pays-Bas: Moyens et fins. 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. ⟨halshs-01422148⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Die Wiederherstellung von Pluto. Theatralität in frühneuzeitlichen alchemistischen Praxis. Schramm, H. and Schwarte, L. and Lorber, M. Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum alchemicum, De Gruyter, pp.112--153, 2016. ⟨halshs-01422147⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Techniques et religion. 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. ⟨halshs-01422142⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Techniques, infrastructures globales et acteurs transnationaux. Pérez, Liliane and Zakharova, Larissa. Les Techniques et la globalisation au XXe siècle, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp.269--279, 2016. ⟨halshs-01422146⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Jonathan Regier. Early Modern Ideas of Space and Spatiality. Vermeir, Koen and Regier, Jonathan. Boundaries, Extents and Circulations. Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer, pp.vii -- xi, 2016. ⟨halshs-01422137⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Techniques, rites, religion. 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. ⟨halshs-01422141⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Marie Thébaud-Sorger. La reconstitution des sciences et des techniques. 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. ⟨halshs-01422140⟩
    • Jonathan Regier, Koen Vermeir. Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: An Introduction to Spatiality and the Early Modern Concept of Space. 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⟩. ⟨halshs-01422144⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Guérir ceux qui ont la foi. Le mesmérisme et l'imagination historique. Belhoste, Bruno and Edelman, Nicole. Le Mesmérisme en Contexte, Omniscience, pp.119--145; 283--290, 2015, 978-2-916097-57-2. ⟨halshs-01454109⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Religion, technology and the arts in the early modern period. MPIWG Research Report, 2013/2014, 2015. ⟨halshs-01454111⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Tout dépend des circonstances. Superstition, lois de la nature et dissolution du préternaturel au tournant du XVIIIe siècle. 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. ⟨halshs-01454113⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Philosophy and Genealogy. Ways of writing the history of philosophy. 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. ⟨halshs-01421957⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Mechanical Philosophy in an Enchanted World. Cartesian Empiricism in Balthasar Bekker's Radical Reformation. Dobre, Mihnea and Nyden, Tammy. Cartesian Empiricisms, Springer, pp.275--306, 2013. ⟨halshs-01421955⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Bio-bibliographical Note: Balthasar Bekker. Dobre, Mihnea and Nyden, Tammy. Cartesian Empiricisms, Springer, pp.307--308, 2013. ⟨halshs-01421956⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. "Bent and Directed towards Him". Kircher's sunflower clock seen from a baroque perspective. Science in the Age of Baroque, Springer, pp.37-65, 2012, International Archives of the History of Ideas. ⟨halshs-00770403⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Vampires as Creatures of the Imagination: Theories of Body, Soul and Imagination in Early Modern Vampire Tracts (1659-1755). Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period., Brepols Publishers, pp.341-373, 2012. ⟨halshs-00609387⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Michael Deckard. Philosophical Enquiries into the Science of Sensibility. Koen Vermeir and Michael Funk Deckard. The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, Springer, pp.3-56, 2012. ⟨halshs-00609384⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Preface: Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry in context, 250 years later. The Science of Sensibility. Reading Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, Springer, pp.v-xx, 2012, International Archives of the History of Ideas. ⟨halshs-00770198⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE OR SUPERSTITION?: THE DUTCH DEBATE ON DIVINATION. 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. ⟨halshs-00609394⟩

    Directions of work or proceedings9 documents

    • Koen Vermeir, Jonathan Regier. History of Early Astronomy. 2020. ⟨halshs-03098010⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Charters Erica. Histories of epidemics in the time of COVID‐19. 2020. ⟨halshs-03098013⟩
    • 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. ⟨halshs-02427503⟩
    • Sophie A. de Beaune, Liliane Hilaire-Perez, Koen Vermeir. L'analogie dans les techniques. France. CNRS Editions, 2017, Coll. Alpha. ⟨halshs-01713674⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Electricity and Imagination. France. 57 (3), pp.129--228, 2016. ⟨halshs-01422145⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Jonathan Regier. Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy. Springer. France. 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⟩. ⟨hal-01514985⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Daniel Margócsy. States of Secrecy. From Alchemy to the Atomic Bomb.: Special Issue of British Journal for the History of Science.. Cambridge University Press, pp.130, 2012. ⟨halshs-00769833⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Michael Deckard. The Science of Sensibility. Reading Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry. Springer, pp.357, 2012, ⟨10.1007/978-94-007-2102-9⟩. ⟨halshs-00769830⟩
    • Raffaele Carbone, Koen Vermeir. Malebranche et l'imagination puissante.. Franco Angeli Edizioni, pp.97, 2012. ⟨halshs-00769836⟩

    Other publications3 documents

    Preprints, Working Papers, ...5 documents

    Reports4 documents

    • Koen Vermeir, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Barthélémy Darboux, Juan Armando Sanchez, Henrikki Tenkanen, et al.. IAP input into the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation. [Research Report] UNESCO; InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). 2020. ⟨halshs-03098112⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Martin Dominik. Input to the UNESCO Global Consultation on Open Science. [Other] UNESCO; Global Young Academy. 2020. ⟨halshs-03098088⟩
    • Koen Vermeir. Historical Perspectives on Enlightenment 2.0. [Research Report] Joint Research Center. 2019. ⟨halshs-02427545⟩
    • Koen Vermeir, Laura Fierce, Anna Coussens. Young Scientist Perspectives on Replicability and Reproducibility in Science and Engineering. [Research Report] USA National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Global Young Academy. 2018. ⟨halshs-02427535⟩