Tag: Utrecht
Vermeer regathered
We’re back in the Netherlands: the first time we’ve broken out of our bleak little island for over three years. It’s a relief to be in a country where most things seem to work, as they once did in Britain: railways and buses, information and advice services, health facilities, clean public spaces and much else. […]
Anna Maria van Schurman
One of the most useful things an historian can do is to restore to us people from the past who have unjustly slipped from our collective memory. Until recently an outstanding figure of early European science had vanished from sight almost completely, except in his home country. In his lifetime, the second half of the […]