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Dr.ir. F.J. Dijksterhuis (Fokko Jan)
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Ravelijn room RA 4313 |
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Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis |
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MB-STePS |
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PO Box 217 |
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7500 AE Enschede |
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(053) 489 3318 |
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(053) 489 2159 |
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Background
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis is Associate Professor of History of Science at the Centre for Studies of Science and Technology. He holds a degree in Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society (MA) and has worked as a teacher of mathematics and social science at secondary level.
In 1999, he finished his PhD thesis on the history of optics in the seventeenth century, focusing on the work of Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695): Lenses and Waves. Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical Science of Optics in the Seventeenth Century (Kluwer 2004).
In 2006 he received an NWO VIDI grant for a five year research project The Uses of Mathematics in the Dutch Republic. The project includes two PhD’s and will start in 2007.
Research
The research interests of Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis focus upon the cultural history of mathematics and the ways mathematical thinking have become dominant in western society. The project The Uses of Mathematics in the Dutch Republic aims at developing a cultural historical perspective on mathematization in early modern science and technology. For further information see the description of the project.
Besides his research on the early modern history of the mathematical sciences, he has written a history of NRLO, the Dutch Council for Agricultural Research. He has been involved in the training of teachers at secondary level for Science for Public Understanding and is co-author of a secondary level mathematics textbook.
Teaching
411330 Grote Denkers uit het Verleden van de Wetenschap. Portrait gallery from the history of science.
411301 Geschiedenis van de Natuurwetenschap vanaf Newton. History of science from Newton to Einstein.
411130 Geschiedenis van de Toekomst. The history of visions of the future as seen through cinema eyes.
411105 & 411140 Lange Termijn Ontwikkeling van de Wetenschap I & II. Long term development analysis of knowledge production.
173109 Minor Geschiedenis. History course on science, technology and the making of modern society.
162261 Science, Technology and Modern Society. Theories of modernity and analyses of technology.
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis is involved in the development and implementation of the University of Twente Honours Program, an additional program for talented bachelor students. See www.utwente.nl/honours.
Publications
Selection of major academic publications. For a list including general papers and pre-prints see my website.
Lenses and Waves. Christiaan Huygens and the mathematical science of optics in the seventeenth century (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004). Electronic version (access required).
Articles and Book chapters (2000-2007)
‘Once Snel breaks down. From Geometrical to Physical Optics in the Seventeenth Century’, Annals of Science 61 (2004), 165-168.
“Constructive Thinking. A Case for Dioptrics” in L. Roberts et al. (ed.) The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialization (Amsterdam: 2007, forthcoming)
“Reading up on A Compleat System of Opticks (1738)” in J. Buchwald and A. Shapiro (eds.) The Legacy of Newton’s Opticks. (Cambridge: forthcoming)
Lemmata ‘WASSENAER, Petrus van (before 1645 - 1688)’, ‘HUYGENS, Christiaan (1629 - 1695)’, ‘LULOFS, Johan (1711 - 1768)’ en ‘STAMPIOEN (de Jonge), Jan Jansz. (1610 - after 1689)’ in W. van Bunge, et al. (ed.) Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Dutch Philosophers (Bristol: 2003)
“Huygens’ efforts to make science useful for technology” in H. Kragh, et al. (ed.) History of Modern Physics (Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997)) (Turnhout: 2002)
Lemmata ‘Bartholin’, ‘Snel’, ‘Refraction’, ‘Optics’, ‘Light transmission’, ‘Color’, in: W. Applebaum (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution, New York: Garland, 2000.
‘Titan en Christiaan. Huygens in leven en werk’, Gewina 23 (2000), 56-68.
‘Christiaan Huygens en de Mechanica van Licht’, in. M.Keestra (ed.), Doorbraken in de Natuurkunde, Amsterdam: Nieuwezijds, 2001.
Networks
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis is member of the Huizinga Instituut Research Institute and Graduate School of Cultural History (http://cf.hum.uva.nl/~huizinga/).
