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[[Category:Scientist]] | '''Steven Vanden Broecke''' is a Belgian historian of science and early modern intellectual historian, and a full professor in the Department of History at [[University of Ghent|Ghent University]]. He is best known for his work on the history of astrology and astronomy in the Renaissance and early modern period, and for his study of the relationship between science, religion, and belief. | ||
==Biography== | |||
Vanden Broecke studied History and Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), where he completed a PhD in History in 2000 with a dissertation on Renaissance astrology at the late medieval University of Louvain. During 1998–1999 he was a visiting PhD student at the Warburg Institute of the University of London. | |||
After completing his doctorate, he held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of the History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He subsequently taught at KU Brussel from 2004 to 2007, before joining the Department of History at Ghent University in 2007, where he became a professor. He is a member of the Group for Early Modern Studies (GEMS), an interdisciplinary research center at Ghent University's Faculty of Arts. | |||
==Work== | |||
Vanden Broecke's research addresses early modern intellectual history and the history of science, with particular attention to the history of astrology, astronomy, magic, cosmography, and the philosophy of mathematics. His work also examines the history of knowledge and belief, the history of religion, Renaissance humanism, and the relationship between science and religion in the Spanish Netherlands. | |||
His best-known book, ''The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology'' (Brill, 2003), a revised version of his doctoral dissertation, examines the fortunes of astrology at the University of Louvain in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's critique. His later research has approached the history of European astrology between roughly 1300 and 1700 as the history of a changing practice of self-care and self-transformation, and has extended toward cultural questions of possession, embodiment, and the passions. | |||
==Honors== | |||
* Jan Gillis Prize of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB), 2002 | |||
==External links== | |||
* [https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/steven.vandenbroecke Faculty profile at Ghent University] | |||
* [https://gemsugent.wordpress.com/people/steven-vanden-broecke/ Profile at GEMS, Ghent University] | |||
[[Category:Scientist|Vanden Broecke Steven]] | |||
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Steven Vanden Broecke | |
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| Residence | Gent, Belgi, Belgium |
| Known for | History of Science, University of Ghent, Dept. of History |
Steven Vanden Broecke is a Belgian historian of science and early modern intellectual historian, and a full professor in the Department of History at Ghent University. He is best known for his work on the history of astrology and astronomy in the Renaissance and early modern period, and for his study of the relationship between science, religion, and belief.
Biography
Vanden Broecke studied History and Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), where he completed a PhD in History in 2000 with a dissertation on Renaissance astrology at the late medieval University of Louvain. During 1998–1999 he was a visiting PhD student at the Warburg Institute of the University of London.
After completing his doctorate, he held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of the History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He subsequently taught at KU Brussel from 2004 to 2007, before joining the Department of History at Ghent University in 2007, where he became a professor. He is a member of the Group for Early Modern Studies (GEMS), an interdisciplinary research center at Ghent University's Faculty of Arts.
Work
Vanden Broecke's research addresses early modern intellectual history and the history of science, with particular attention to the history of astrology, astronomy, magic, cosmography, and the philosophy of mathematics. His work also examines the history of knowledge and belief, the history of religion, Renaissance humanism, and the relationship between science and religion in the Spanish Netherlands.
His best-known book, The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology (Brill, 2003), a revised version of his doctoral dissertation, examines the fortunes of astrology at the University of Louvain in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's critique. His later research has approached the history of European astrology between roughly 1300 and 1700 as the history of a changing practice of self-care and self-transformation, and has extended toward cultural questions of possession, embodiment, and the passions.
Honors
- Jan Gillis Prize of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB), 2002