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Albrecht Heeffer
Albrecht Heeffer
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Research group(s)
GEMS - Group for Early Modern Studies
SARTON - Sarton Centre for History of Science
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Projects
Projects as researcher
An epistemological study of material models from practical mathematics in early-modern natural philosophical debates
(
2013
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2017
)
Development of concepts and the evolution of science. Symbolic algebra in the 16th and 17th century. A case study
(
2004
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2005
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Heeffer, Albrecht. “Dutch Algebra and Arithmetic in Japan before the Meiji Restoration.”
Navigating across Mathematical Cultures and Times
, edited by Ioannis Vandoulakis and Dun Liu, World Scientific, 2025.
Heeffer, Albrecht. “The Difficult Relation of Surveyors with Algebra : The Hundred Mathematical Questions of Cardinael.”
Beyond the Learned Academy : The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850
, edited by Philip Beeley and Christopher Hollings, Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 365–86, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198863953.003.0014.
Heeffer, Albrecht. “Quantifications of the Secondary Qualities, Heat and Cold, on the Earliest Scales of Thermoscopes.”
EARLY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
, vol. 25, no. 6, 2021, pp. 562–93, doi:10.1163/15733823-00256p03.
Heeffer, Albrecht. “Beloften En Teleurstellingen van Artificiële Intelligentie Voor Wetenschappelijke Ontdekkingen.”
ALGEMEEN NEDERLANDS TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR WIJSBEGEERTE
, vol. 113, no. 1, 2021, pp. 55–80, doi:10.5117/ANTW2021.1.003.HEEF.
Heeffer, Albrecht. “Recreational Mathematics.”
Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences
, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Charles Wolfe, Springer, 2021, pp. 1–4, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_573-1.
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