PhD in History

The Sarton Centre for History of Science and Humanities (Ghent University) and the Centre Leo Apostel (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) invite applications for two fully funded PhD positions within a four year research project on early modern astronomical culture in the Habsburg Netherlands. The project investigates astronomy in seventeenth century Europe as an intellectual, moral and religious practice, focusing on the priest astronomer Govaart Wendelen (1580–1667). Drawing on manuscript materials, correspondence, observational records and printed works, the project combines intellectual history, history of science and manuscript studies and examines the relationship between Copernican astronomy, Catholic theology, chronology and moral reform. Location: Ghent, Belgium.