Hendrik Floris Cohen (born

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

, Netherlands, 1 July 1946) is a historian of science.

Life

Cohen studied

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at the

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, receiving a Ph.D. in 1974. He is a professor in the Comparative History of Science at the

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. Cohen is the brother of politician

Job Cohen Marius Job Cohen (; born 18 October 1947) is a retired Dutch politician and jurist who served as Mayor of Amsterdam from 2001 to 2010 and Leader of the Labour Party (PvdA) from 2010 to 2012. Cohen studied Law at the University of Groningen obt ...

and son of the historian Dolf Cohen. In 2008, Cohen was awarded the Dutch "Eureka" prize for the best book of the year that makes science accessible to a wide audience.

Bibliography

''The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry''
University of Chicago Press 1994, 680 pages,
''Quantifying Music: The Science of Music at the First Stage of Scientific Revolution 1580-1650''
Springer 1984, 332 pages, * ''How Modern Science Came into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough'', Amsterdam University Press, 2011 *

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* 1946 births Living people Historians of science 20th-century Dutch historians Writers from Haarlem Leiden University alumni University of Twente faculty Utrecht University faculty Dutch Jews 21st-century Dutch historians {{Netherlands-historian-stub