Coordonnées
Adresse Institute for Art History, Freie Universität Berlin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Biographie
Domaine de recherche Histoire des Sciences
Formation Licencié en histoire des sciences (Université de Gand, 1997), GGS Logica, L’histoire et la philosophie des sciences (Université de Gand, 1999), Doctorat en Philosophie (Université de Gand, 2002)
Rattachement institutionnel Centrum voor Wetenschapsgeschiedenis, Universiteit Gent
Titres et Responsabilités Membre associé, Nationaal Comité voor Logica, Geschiedenis en Filosofie van de Wetenschappen
Activités passées
Institute and Museum for the History of Science, Florence (1998), Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston (1999) ; Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (2002-2003). Visiting Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (2008).
Publications
Ouvrages
De Optica van Galileo Galilei : Interactie tussen Kunst en Wetenschap, Brussel, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, 2001, 283 p. (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, Nieuwe Reeks, Nummer 5)
Renaissance Optics : Instruments, Practical Knowledge and the Appropriation of Theory, Berlin, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2003, 112 p.
(Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Preprint 246)
(Comme éditeur) Optics, Instruments and Painting, 1420-1720 : Reflections on the Hockney-Falco Thesis.
Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 2005, 214 p.
(Early Science and Medicine, 10 (2005) 2, p. 125-339; compte rendu in Nature, 15 December 2005, p. 916-917)
Articles
Galileo’s Telescope and Celestial Light.
Journal for the History of Astronomy, 34 (2003), p. 369-399
The Dioptrics of Refractive Dials in the Sixteenth Century.
Nuncius, 18 (2003), p. 39-68
Ausonio’s Mirrors and Galileo’s Lenses : The Telescope and Sixteenth-century Practical Optical Knowledge.
Galilaeana : Journal of Galilean Studies, 2 (2005), p. 145-180
Optics, Pictures and Evidence : Leonardo’s Drawings of Mirrors and Machinery, in DUPRÉ (Sven) (ed.), Optics, Instruments and Painting, 1420-1720 : Reflections on the Hockney-Falco Thesis.
Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 2005, p. 211-236.
(Early Science and Medicine, 10 (2005) 2, p. 125-339)
The Hockney-Falco Thesis : Constraints and Opportunities, in DUPRÉ (Sven) (ed.), Optics, Instruments and Painting, 1420-1720 : Reflections on the Hockney-Falco Thesis.
Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 2005, p. 125-136.
(Early Science and Medicine, 10 (2005) 2, p. 125-339)
Visualization in Renaissance Optics : The Function of Geometrical Diagrams and Pictures in the Transmission of Practical Knowledge, in KUSUKAWA (Sachiko) & Maclean (Ian) (ed.) Transmitting Knowledge : Words, Images and Instruments in Early Modern Europe.
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 11-39
Contributions à des colloques, séminaires
(Avec Michael Korey) The Use and Re-use of Optical Instruments : Creating Knowledge in the Dresden Kunstkammer, in Grob (Bart) & Hooijmaijers (Hans) (eds.), Who needs scientific instruments?
Leiden, Museum Boerhaave, 2006, p. 75-80
The Optics of Ettore Ausonio : Instrument Design and Optics in Sixteenth Century Italy, in SALDAÑA (Juan José) (ed.), Science and Cultural Diversity: Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of the History of Science.
Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y de la Tecnologia, 2005, p. 475-491
Publications électroniques
Galilei en Kunst in De Poorter (John) (ed.), De Val van Galilei, http://www.devalvangalilei.be , 2002, avec le soutien de Arteveldehogeschool, Centrum Informatieve Spelen, Vlaamse Regering
Activités présentes
Directeur de recherche Institute for Art History, Freie Universität Berlin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Séminaire History of Science: Concepts, Methods, Problems; Problems from the First Scientific Revolution : From Copernicus to Newton dans les Postgraduate Studies in Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, Universiteit Gent
Principaux travaux en cours
Coordinateur, FWO-Onderzoekgemeenschap ‘Circulating knowledge in Early Modern Science’ (2006-2011),
http://www.circulatingknowledge.ugent.be
French 
Dutch