Eric Jorink

Research group Knowledge and Art Practices

Specialisation Scientific culture of the early-modern era

Contact eric.jorink@huygens.knaw.nl
+31 (0)20-2246867

Biography

Eric Jorink is senior-researcher at the Huygens Instituut and holds the Teylers-chair ‘Enlightenment and Religion’ at Leiden University. Jorink studied History and Philosophy at the University of Groningen and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was lauréat of the Fondation Prix de Paris in 1993. In 2004 he was awarded his doctorate cum laude for a thesis on the relation between science and religion in the Dutch Golden Age. The dissertation was awarded with a prize of the prestigious Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. Since 2001 Jorink has been working as a researcher at the Huygens Institute; since 2013 as professor in Leiden. In 2012-2013 he was Andrew W. Mellon visiting professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art (London); in 2022-2023 visiting professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte (Rome).

Jorink has widely published on the scientific culture in early modern Europe, including the culture of collecting, the relation between art and science, and the emergence of radical biblical criticism. Jorink is currently finishing a biography of Johannes Swammerdam (1637-1680) and a study on the fame of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Since 2021 he is leading the international researchproject Visualizing the Unknown. Besides, in cooperation with Teylers Foundation Teylers Stichting and the other Teylers-professor prof.dr. Frans van Lunteren Frans van Lunteren – Leiden University (universiteitleiden.nl), he has initiated research on the intellectual culture of the Mennonite community in Haarlem, ca 1500-1800.

Research projects

Visualizing the Unknown

ePistolarium

2016

Jorink, H.G.M. "'Swammerdam, hoveling? Enige kanttekeningen bij de repuatie van een wetenschappelijk onderzoeker"". Studium. Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitsgeschiedenis. 2016, 8(4). 173-197.

2011

Jorink, H.G.M. "'Beyond the Lines of Apelles. Johannes Swammerdam, Dutch Scientific Culture and the Representation of Insect Anatomy'". Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art - Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. 2011, 61. 148-183.

Jorink, H.G.M. and B.A.M. Ramakers. "'Undivided territory. 'Art' and 'Science' in the early Modern Netherlands'". Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art - Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. 2011, 61. 6-33.

2009

Jorink, H.G.M. "[Review of: L Roberts (2007) The Mindful hand. Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaiisance to Early Industrialisation]". Studium. Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitsgeschiedenis. 2009, 1(4). 303-305.

2008

Jorink, H.G.M. "[Review of: M. Loderichs (ed.) (2004) Rumphius' wonderwereld. Zeventiende-eeuwse natuurbeschrijvingen uit Ambon]". Studium. Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitsgeschiedenis. 2008, 1(2008). 71-72.

2007

Jorink, H.G.M. "Alles hangt met alles samen. Enige opmerkingen over de achttiende-eeuwse verzamelcultuur in de Republiek". De Achttiende Eeuw. 2007, 39. 42-51.

2017

Jorink, H.G.M. "‘Otto Marseus van Schrieck en de orde van de schepping'". Schepselen. 2017, 2-8.

2013

Jorink, H.G.M. "De Gouden Eeuw: Een nieuwe Wetenschap (aflevering 11)". VPRO (tv). 2013.

2008

Jorink, H.G.M. "De logica van de luis. Johannes Goedaert (1617-1668) en Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680)". Kunstschrift. 2008, 52(1). 10-17.

Jorink, H.G.M. "De schepping in de eigen studeerkamer". Geschiedenis Magazine. 2008, 6. 37-41.

2022

Jorink, H.G.M. "Cartesian Sex: Dutch Anatomists on Genitalia, Lust and Intercourse (ca. 1660–1680)". Gengoux, Nicole Girard, Pierre Laerke, Mogens (ed.). Les Libertins néerlandais / The Dutch Libertines. Chapter 9, Libertinage et philosophie à l'époque classique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle). Paris: Classiques Garnier. 2022, 247-288.

Jorink, H.G.M. "De profeet en de boekhouder: Johannes Swammerdam, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek en de begindagen van de microscopie". and Braeckman, Johan Van Speybroeck, Linda (ed.). Fascinerend leven: Een geschiedenis van de biologie. Chapter 6, Gent: Academia Press. 2022, 176-206.

Jorink, H.G.M. "Een kooi met jonge duiven. Jacob Westerbaen aan Constantijn Huygens, 3 maart 1658". and Huysman, Ineke Leerintveld, Ad (ed.). Constantijn Huygens. Een leven in brieven. Chapter 26, Soest: Catullus. 2022, 204-209.

Jorink, H.G.M. "From symbolism to argument from design. The world as a clockwork". Hond, Jan de Jorink, Eric Mulder, Hans (ed.). Crawly Creatures: Depiction and appreciation of insects and other critters in art and science (Exhibition catalogue Rijksmuseum). Chapter 4, Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum/Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers. 2022, 80-92.

Jorink, H.G.M. "Maria Sibylla Merian and Johannes Swammerdam: Conceptual Frameworks, Observational Strategies, and Visual Techniques". van Delft, Marieke, Etheridge, Kay Mulder, Hans van de Roemer, Bert Pieters, Florence (ed.). Maria Sibylla Merian: Changing the Nature of Art and Science. Chapter 7, Tielt: Lannoo. 2022, 171-183.

Jorink, H.G.M. "The Myologia by Saeghemolen and Van Horne in context = La Myologie de Saeghemolen et Van Horne dans son contexte: Art, science and religion at Leiden University, ca. 1660 = art, science et religion à l'université de Leiden vers 1660". and Vincent, Jean-François Bonnard, Isabelle (ed.). Quatre atlas de myologie de Van Horne et Sagemolen : Approche pluridisciplinaire de dessins inédits du Siècle d'or néerlandais: Actes du colloque international des 18 et 19 juin 2021. Chapter 3, Paris: OPUS. Université Paris Cité. 2022, 39-64. https://doi.org/10.53480/van-horne.6c30

Jorink, H.G.M. "'The Smallest Print in the Book of Nature. Insects and Christian Devotion'". Hond, Jan de Jorink, Eric Mulder, Hans (ed.). Crawly Creatures. Depiction and appreciation of insects and other critters in art and science (Exhibition catalogue Rijksmuseum). Chapter 4, Rijksmuseum/Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers. 2022, 58-80.

2021

Jorink, H.G.M. "An Eye for Detail: Art, Science, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Leiden". Yeager-Crasselt, Lara Brisman, Shira Jorink, Eric (ed.). An Inner World : seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting: An exhibition of the Leiden Collection, Arthur Ross Gallery Pennsylvania. Chapter 3, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2021, 47-62.

Jorink, H.G.M. ""Humans and other animals in the Low Countries: An Introduction"". and Woodall, Joanna Wouk, Edward H. (ed.). Humans and other animals: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek /Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art. Chapter 1, Leiden: Brill. 2021, 7-31.

2020

Jorink, H.G.M. "Physico-theology in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic: The case of Willem Goeree (1635-1711)". and Blair, Ann Von Greyerz, Kaspar (ed.). Physico-theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650-1750. Chapter 5, Medicine, science, and religion in historical context. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2020, 78-89.

Jorink, H.G.M. "The First Museum in the Netherlands? The Establishment of Teyler’s Oval Room in Historical Perspective (c. 1600– 1800)". and Bergvelt, Ellinoor Meijers, Debora J. (ed.). Teyler’s Foundation in Haarlem and Its ‘Book and Art Room’ of 1779: A Key Moment in the History of a Learned Institution. Chapter 5, Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions. Leiden: Brill. 2020, 87-108.

2018

Jorink, H.G.M. and Huib J. Zuidervaart "Newton's reception in the Low Countries". and Pulte, Helmut Mandelbrote, Scott (ed.). The reception of Isaac Newton in Europe. Chapter 3, Bloomsbury Publishing. 2019, 59-99.

2017

Jorink, H.G.M. "Modus vivendi politicus: Nicolaus Steno and the Dutch (Spinoza, Swammerdam and other Friends) 1660-1664". and Andrault, Raphaële Lærke, Mogens (ed.). Steno and the Philosophers. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History. Leiden: Brill. 2018, 13-44.

Jorink, H.G.M. "‘Between Rome and Amsterdam. Marseus van Schrieck and his artistic and scientific networks’". Seelig, Gero (editors). The Menagerie of Medusa – Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Scholars. Münich: Hirmer. 2017, 83-97.

Jorink, H.G.M. et al. "Jacob Jehuda Leon, Adam Boreel en de Tempel van Salomo". 'Dingen die ergens toe dienen': Verhalen over materiele cultuur van wetenschap. Uitgeverij Verloren. 2017, 113-117.

Jorink, H.G.M. "‘Op het snijpunt van de seksen. René Descartes, Nederlandse anatomen en het onderzoek naar de anatomie van man en vrouw in de zeventiende eeuw’". and Jansz, Ulla Everard, Myriam (ed.). Sekse; geschiedenis van een begrip.. Jaarboek voor vrouwengeschiedenis. Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren. 2017.

Jorink, H.G.M. "'The eye of the beholder. Insects, philosophy and the microscope'". New Cultures of Natural History. Cambridge University Press. 2017.

Jorink, H.G.M. "‘The eye of the beholder. Insects, religion and the microscope’". Curry, Helen Jardine, Nicolas Sparry, Emma (ed.). New Cultures of Natural History. cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2017.

Jorink, H.G.M. "‘Zwischen Rom und Amsterdam. Otto Marseus van Schrieck und seine künsterlichen und wissenschaftlichen Netzwerke’". Seelig, Gero (editors). Die Menagerie der Medussa – Otto Marseus van Schrieck und die Gelehrten. Münich: Hirmer. 2017, 83-97.

2014

Jorink, H.G.M. "'Snakes, Fungi and Insects. Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Johannes Swammerdam and the Theory of Spontaneous Generation'". and Enenkel, Karl A.E. Smith, Paul.J. (ed.). Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education. Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture. Leiden: Brill. 2014, 197-234.

2013

Jorink, H.G.M. "De profeet en de boekhouder. Johannes Swammerdam, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek en de begindagen van de microscopie". and Van Speybroeck, L Braeckman, J (ed.). Fascinerend leven. Markante figuren en ideeën uit de geschiedenis van de biologie. Gent: Academia Press. 2013, 179-208.

2012

Jorink, H.G.M. and D.K.W. van Miert "Epilogue: Isaac Vossius in Context". and van Jorink, H.G.M. Miert, D.K.W. (ed.). Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) Between Science and Scholarship. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2012, 311-319.

Jorink, H.G.M. "'In the Twilight Zone. Isaac Vossius and the Scientific Communities in France, England and the Dutch Republic". and van Jorink, H.G.M. Miert, D.K.W. (ed.). Isaac Vossus (1618-1689) between Science and Scholarship. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2012, 119-156.

Jorink, H.G.M. and A. Maas "'Introduction'". Newton and the Netherlands. How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 2012, 7-12.

Jorink, H.G.M. and D.K.W. van Miert "Introduction. The Challenger: Isaac Vossius and the European World of Learning". and van Jorink, H.G.M Miert, D.K.W. (ed.). Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) Between Science and Scholarship. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2012, 1-13.

Jorink, H.G.M. "Sloane and the Dutch Connecttion". Hunter, M. Walker, A. MacGregor, A. (ed.). From Books to Bezoars. Sir Hans Sloane and his Collections. Londen: British Library Publishing. 2012, 57-70.

Jorink, H.G.M. and H.J. Zuidervaart "''The Miracle of Our Time'. How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Netherlands'". and Jorink, H.G.M. Maas, A. (ed.). Newton and the Netherlands. How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 2012, 13-66.

2011

Jorink, H.G.M. "‘Noah’s Ark Restored (and Wrecked): Dutch Collectors, Natural History and the Problem of Biblical Exegesis’". Silent Messengers. The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries. Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Knowledge. Berlijn: LIT Verlag. 2011, 153-184.

2009

Jorink, H.G.M. "'Honouring Sir Isaac, or, Exorcising the Ghost of Spinoza'". Ducheyne, S (editors). Future Perspectives on Newton Scholarschip and the Newtonian Legacy in Eighteenth-Century Science and Philosophy.. Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (KVAB). 2009, 23-34.

Jorink, H.G.M. "'Horrible and Blasphemous': Isaac la Peyrère, Isaac Vossius and the Emergence of Radical Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Republic". and van der Meer, J. Mandelbrote, S. (ed.). Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: Up to 1700. Brill's Series in Church History. Leiden etc: Brill. 2009, 429-450.

2008

Jorink, H.G.M. "'Comets in contex. Some thoughts on Bayle's Pensées diverses'". and van Bunge, W. Bots, H. (ed.). Pierre Bayle (1647-1706, Le philosophe de Rotterdam: Philosophy, religion and reception. Selected papers of the tercentenary conference held at Rotterdam, 7-8 December 2006.. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Leiden: Brill. 2008, 51-68.

Jorink, H.G.M. "De pruikentijd, 1672-1780". Brood, P. (editors). Het Grote Vaderlandse Geschiedenisboek. Zwolle/Den Haag: Waanders / Nationaal Archief. 2008, 193-208.

2007

Jorink, H.G.M. "Between emblematics and the 'argument from design': the representation of insects in the Dutch Republic". and Smith, P.J. Enenkel, K.A.E (ed.). Early modern zoology. The construction of animals in science, literature and the visual arts. Intersections. Yearbook for early modern studies. Leiden: Brill. 2007, 147-176.

2022

Jorink, H.G.M. Jan de Hond and Hans Mulder Crawly Creatures: Depiction and appreciation of insects and other critters in art and science (Exhibition catalogue Rijksmuseum) Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum/Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers. 2022.

2021

Jorink, H.G.M. Joanna Woodall and Edward Wouk Humans and other animals Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. Leiden: Brill. 2021.

2015

Jorink, H.G.M. De Ark, de Tempel, het Museum. Veranderende modellen van kennis in de eeuw van de Verlichting: Inaugurele rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van buitengewoon hoogleraar 'Verlichting en religie' vanwege Teylers Stichting Haarlem: gottmer uitgevers. 2015.

2010

Jorink, H.G.M. Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715 Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History. Leiden en Boston: Brill. 2010.

2009

Jorink, H.G.M. Referentenrapport artikel Chicago: Isis. 2009.

Jorink, H.G.M. Referentenrapport artikel Jaarboek voor Ecologische Geschiedenis Gent: Academia Press. 2009.

Jorink, H.G.M. Referentenrapport monografie Serie Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Leiden: Brill. 2009.

Jorink, H.G.M. Referent presentatie promotieonderzoek drs. Sylvia van Zaanen Amsterdam: Huizinga Instituut. 2009.

2008

Jorink, H.G.M. 'Geef zicht aan de blinden'. Constantijn Huygens, René Descartes en het Boek der natuur Leiden: Primavera Pers. 2008.

2007

Jorink, H.G.M. Heurnius, Johannes and Otto Dictionary of Medical Biography III. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2007.

Jorink, H.G.M. Lemnius, Levinus Dictionary of Medical Biography II. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2007.

Jorink, H.G.M. Piso, Willem Dictionary of Medical Biography IV. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2007.

Jorink, H.G.M. Swammerdam, Jan Dictionary of Medical Biography V. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2007.

2006

Jorink, H.G.M. Het 'Boeck der Natuere'. Nederlandse geleerden en de wonderen van God's schepping, 1575-1715. Leiden: Primavera Pers. 2006.

2017

van Gelder, Esther et al. 'Dingen die ergens toe dienen': Verhalen over materiele cultuur van wetenschap Uitgeverij Verloren. 2017.

2016

Jorink, H.G.M. Frits Scholten and Thijs Weststeijn, editors. "Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 66 (2016): Netherlandish Art in its Global Context". Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. 2016. 66(2016).

Jorink, H.G.M. editors Netherlandish Art in its Global Context Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art. Brill. 2016.

2012

Jorink, H.G.M. and D.K.W. van Miert, editors Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) Between Science and Scholarship Brill's Studies in Intellectual History. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2012.

Jorink, H.G.M. and A. Maas, editors Newton and the Netherlands. How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic Leiden: Leiden University Press. 2012.

2011

Jorink, H.G.M. and B.A.M. Ramakers, editors Art and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. Zwolle: WBOOKS. 2011.

2017

H.G.M. Jorink (2017). 'De vinger Gods. Naar een nieuwe biografie van Johannes Swammerdam'. 30-10-2017.

H.G.M. Jorink (2017). Paper ‘Spinoza, Steno, Swammerdam, and the Leiden Medical Faculty', International conference 'Meeting Spinoza. Books, Letters, Networks, Personal Encounters', Utrecht. 05-10-2017. (Meeting Spinoza. Books, Letters, Networks, Personal Encounters)

H.G.M. Jorink (2017). Lecture ‘Herbals and the Book of Nature’, International summerschool Print Culture in Early Modern Europe,. 04-07-2017.

H.G.M. Jorink (2017). 'Geloof en wetenschap bij Johannes Swammerdam'. 19-06-2017.

H.G.M. Jorink (2017). Paper ‘Physico-theology in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic: The case of Willem Goeree (1635-1711)’, International Conference Physico-theology in England and on the European Continent (1650-c.1750) Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel,. 19-06-2017. (International Conference Physico-theology in England and on the European Continent (1650-c.1750) Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, )

H.G.M. Jorink (2017). 'Teylers Museum and the (Loss of?) the Encyclopaedic Ideal, 1780-2016'. 22-04-2017. (International conference 'Teylers Museum and the (Loss of?) the Encyclopaedic Ideal, 1780-2016')

2016

H.G.M. Jorink (2016). Paper 'The philosophical context of the earliest use of the microscope in the Dutch Republic', International workshop Microscopic Practice and Visual Culture in the 17th and 18th centuries, Artis Library. 02-11-2016. (Paper 'The philosophical context of the earliest use of the microscope in the Dutch Republic')

H.G.M. Jorink (2016). Session 'Rhetorik der Gewissheit – dynamisches Wissen. Glaubensfragen in der Vormoderne', Historikertag Hamburg. 21-09-2016.

H.G.M. Jorink (2016). Conference Making Visible. The Visual Culture of the Early Royal Society. 18-06-2016.

H.G.M. Jorink (2016). 'Knowledge Games. Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Scientific Communities in Florence and Amsterdam, 1650-1680. 22-01-2016. (Conference 'Ingenuity and Imagination in Northern Art and Theory')

H.G.M. Jorink (2016). How Anthonie van Leeuwhoek was fashioned (and Johannes Swammerdam framed). 20-01-2016. (Visual Culture of the Early Royal Society (1660-1730))

2015

H.G.M. Jorink (2015). 'Introduction. Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries (1560-1730)'. 17-09-2015. (Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries)

H.G.M. Jorink (2015). ‘The Painting as a Site of Knowledge: Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Order of Nature’. 20-05-2015. (Seminar Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science)

H.G.M. Jorink (2015). ‘Swammerdam, Ruysch and Marseus. Natural history, Medicine and the Boundaries of Representation 1660-1680’. 23-03-2015. (Conference Migration of Natural Historical Knowledge between Media, 1550-1680)

H.G.M. Jorink (2015). ‘Steno, Swammerdam and Spinoza. Science and religion in the early Enlightenment’. 16-02-2015. (Conference Steno and the Philosophers)

2014

H.G.M. Jorink (2014). Paper ‘Johannes Swammerdam’s use of Images’, International Conference congres Ad vivum?, London. 23-11-2014.

H.G.M. Jorink (2014). 'Studying Insects before Merian: Johannes Goedaert and Johannes Swammerdam'. 26-05-2014. (International confenerence Exploring Maria Sybilla Merian)

2013

H.G.M. Jorink (2013). Johannes Swammerdam's Use of Images. 12-06-2013. (Expert Meeting The Origins of Science as a Visual Pursuit)

H.G.M. Jorink (2013). De marges van een klassieker: Newtons Principia (1689) gelezen door de anti-Spinozist Adriaen Verwer. 07-06-2013. (Lezing in het kader van de lancering Annoteted Books Online, Universiteitsbibliotheek)

H.G.M. Jorink (2013). Public lecture '‘De marges van een klassieker: Newton’s Principia (1687) gelezen door de anti-Spinozist Adriaen Verwer’, Launch project Early Annotated Books Online, University Library Utrecht.. 07-06-2013.

H.G.M. Jorink (2013). Johannes Swammerdam, Nicolaus Steno and Spinoza’s Deus sive natura. 18-05-2013. (Seminar Early Modern Intellectual History, University College London)

H.G.M. Jorink (2013). Johannes Swammerdam between Science and Religion. 17-05-2013. (Low Countries Seminar, University College London)

H.G.M. Jorink (2013). Borderline Cases. Art, Science and Religion in the Dutch Golden Age. 15-01-2013. (Annual Friends of the CourtauldLecture, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)

2012

H.G.M. Jorink (2012). From Amsterdam to London. Hans Sloane and the Dutch Culture of Collecting. 22-10-2012. (Research Forum Courtauld Institute of Art, London)

H.G.M. Jorink (2012). ‘Johannes Swammerdam and the origins of insect-theology’. 12-06-2012. (Conference La Bible de la Nature. Les insectes dans l’art, les sciences et la religion en Europe, de la Renaissance aux Lumières,, Parijs, Institut des Études Avancées,)

H.G.M. Jorink (2012). ‘Toads, snakes and insects. Otto Marseus, Johannes Swammerdam and the study of God’s less esteemed creatures’,. 23-05-2012. (Conference Natural History and the Arts from the Perspective of Religion and Politics, 15th-18th centuries, Münster)

H.G.M. Jorink (2012). ‘Johannes Swammerdam’s use of illustrations’. 18-04-2012. (Congres The Origins of Science as a Visual Pursuit, Cambridge)

H.G.M. Jorink (2012). ‘Swammerdam’s Images of Insects: From Observation to Print’. 21-01-2012. (Congres Knowledge/Replication. Early modern Sciences in Print, Northwestern University, Chicago)

2011

H.G.M. Jorink (2011). 'The making of academic disciplines in the early modern period'. 04-10-2011. (Post Graduate Seminar Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

H.G.M. Jorink (2011). 'The Painting as a Site of Knowledge. Otto Marseus van Schrieck (ca 1620-1678) and Scientific Culture in Amsterdam'. 18-06-2011. (Locations of Knowledge. Fourth Dutch bi-annual History of Science Meeting, Woudschoten, Zeist)

2010

H.G.M. Jorink (2010). ‘Cartesian sex. Seventeenth-century philosophy, Dutch anatomists, and the one-sex model’. 23-11-2010. (Congres Revisiting Thomas Laqueur’s Making Sex, Groningen)

H.G.M. Jorink (2010). ‘Cultures of Collecting and Communities of Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam’. 06-11-2010. (Annual meeting History of Science Society, Montreal (Canada))

H.G.M. Jorink (2010). ‘A Shared World? Romeyn de Hooghe, Johannes Swammerdam and the intellectual cukture of Amsterdam around 1660’. 21-10-2010. (Expert-meeting NWO-project Fault line 1700)

H.G.M. Jorink (2010). ‘Lias and the history of science’. 01-10-2010. (symposium Celebrating Lias: past stories and future prospects, Huygens Instituut, Den Haag)

H.G.M. Jorink (2010). ‘Swammerdam, hoveling? Moeilijkheden en mogelijkheden in een wetenschappelijke carrière’. 28-08-2010. (Congres werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw 'Loopbaan en carrière in de Gouden Eeuw', Amsterdam)

H.G.M. Jorink (2010). ‘The End of a Tradition: Johannes Swammerdam on Natural History’. 17-06-2010. (Internationaal KNAW-colloquium Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1300-1700), Amsterdam)

H.G.M. Jorink (2010). ‘Hans Sloane and the Dutch Connection (Witsen, Ruysch, Vincent, Merian and Boerhaave)’. 06-06-2010. (From Books to Bezoars. An international conference celebrating the 350th anniversary of the birth of Sir Hans Sloane, physician, naturalist and collector, organized by the British Library, Londen)

H.G.M. Jorink (2010). ‘Putting Sir Isaac on the Map. Some Remarks on the Success of Newton and ‘Newtonianism’ in the Netherlands’. 21-04-2010. (Internationaal congres 'Newton and the Netherlands', Leiden)

H.G.M. Jorink (2010). ‘Geloof en natuurwetenschap in de Gouden Eeuw’. 17-02-2010. (Colloquium 'De wetenschappelijke revolutie in Nederland', Museum Boerhaave, Leiden)

2009

H.G.M. Jorink (2009). Cartesian sex. Dutch Physicians and the problem of procreation. 22-11-2009. (Annual Conference History of Science Society, Phoenix, Arizona)

H.G.M. Jorink (2009). 'The making of academic disciplines in the early modern period'. 01-10-2009. (Postgraduate Seminar Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

H.G.M. Jorink (2009). Swammerdam, courtier? Some notes on friendship, patronage and the circulation of knowlegde. 26-06-2009. (Third Bi-annual Dutch conference in the history of science, Woudschoten)

H.G.M. Jorink (2009). 'René Descartes (1596-1650), Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) and the problem of procreation'. 18-04-2009. (Intersections Colloquium 'Blood, Sweat and Tears. The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe', NIAS, Wassenaar)

H.G.M. Jorink (2009). Presentatie Vidi-aanvraag 'Beyond Rationalism. René Descartes, Dutch physicians and the Empirical Tradition'. 17-02-2009. (Colloquium Descartes Centre, Universiteit Utrecht)

2008

H.G.M. Jorink (2008). De burger en de gek. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Jan Swammerdam en de canonisering van kennis en karakter. 27-11-2008. (Symposium Nut en nog eens nut. Zelfverstaan, nationalisme en nut in het negentiende-eeuwse wetenschapsbeeld, Amsterdam)

H.G.M. Jorink (2008). Werkcollege De Wetenschappelijke Revolutie. 13-11-2008. (Collegereeks Wetenschapsgeschiedenis Van Chaos tot Kosmos, Universiteit Leiden)

H.G.M. Jorink (2008). Hoorcollege De Wetenschappelijke Revolutie. 10-11-2008. (Collegereeks Wetenschapsgeschiedenis Van Chaos to Kosmos, Universiteit Leiden)

H.G.M. Jorink (2008). 'Cartesiaanse sex. Nederlandse anatomen over de fysieke verschillen tussen man en vrouw'. 13-06-2008. (Werkgroep 'Sexe. Geschiedenis van een begrip', Huizinga Instituut, Amsterdam)

H.G.M. Jorink (2008). Touching the Divine. Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) on insects. 25-01-2008. (Congres Material for Science: the Use of Instruments, Collections and llustrations in Early Modern Research, Den Haag, Nationaal Archief)

2007

H.G.M. Jorink (2007). `Naer het leven'. De rol van afbeeldingen in het werk van Jan Swammerdam. 29-11-2007. (Colloqium Werkgroep Visuele Cultuur (Huizinga Instituut): Slangen, skeletten en tulpen. De representatie van de natuur in de Gouden Eeuw. Amsterdam)

H.G.M. Jorink (2007). Werkcollege Natuurwetenschap in de Renaissance. 08-11-2007. (Collegereeks Van Chaos tot Kosmos, Universiteit Leiden)

H.G.M. Jorink (2007). Hoorcollege Natuurwetenschap in de Renaissance. 05-11-2007. (Collegereeks Van Chaos tot Kosmos, Universiteit Leiden)

H.G.M. Jorink (2007). 'Ce docte personage'. The curious world of Isaac Vossius FRS. 01-11-2007. (Congres: Between science and scholarship. The wonderful world of Isaac Vossius (1618-1689), Amsterdam)

H.G.M. Jorink (2007). De profeet en de boekhouder. Het microscopisch onderzoek van Jan Swammerdam en Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. 15-10-2007. (Collegeserie Geschiedenis van de Biologie, Universiteit Gent, Gent)

H.G.M. Jorink (2007). The autonomy of Ancient texts in early modern science. 11-10-2007. (Post-graduate seminar Autonomy in/of Culture, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

H.G.M. Jorink (2007). De Enkhuizer stadsarts Bernardus Paludanus (1550-1633) en zijn weg naar de gereformeerde religie. 06-10-2007. (Symposium Religieuze diversiteit in het Noorderkwartier, Vereniging voor Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, Enkhuizen)

H.G.M. Jorink (2007). 'Honouring Sir Isaac, or, Hunting the Ghost of Spinoza'. Some remarks on the image of Newton in the Dutch Republic. 28-09-2007. (Congres Future perspectives on Newton scholarship and the Newtonian legacy in eighteenth-century Europe, Brussel)

H.G.M. Jorink (2007). Het Boek der Natuur in de Republiek, en de historiografie van de Wetenschappelijke Revolutie. 06-06-2007. (Lezing Centrum voor Wetenschapsgeschiedenis, Universiteit Gent)

H.G.M. Jorink (2007). Het Boek der Natuur en de opkomst van de radicale Bijbelkritiek in de zeventiende eeuw. 22-05-2007. (Collegereeks Wetenschap en Religie, Faculteit Godgeleerdheid, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)