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in all its aspects. It has profited from the expertise of a variety of qualified historians:
economic and social historians, historians of demography, of natural science, of
mathematics and of law. Attention is paid to the extent to which a typically Dutch
statistical mind developed, while at the same time it provides an insight into the
nature of the influences from abroad and their possible interactions. The
contributions to this volume show that in spite of the small size of the country, the
different ways in which statistics was pursued remained largely isolated from each
other. This segmentation disappeared only slowly and partially between 1750 and
1850.
Op woensdagmiddag 4 september 2002 werd aan de V rije Universiteit Amsterdam
bovenstaand boek gepresenteerd.
Het programma was als volgt:
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16.15u. Opening door de redacteuren
16.20u. Commentaar door Prof. Dr. Th. M. Porter (UCL'\.. Los Angeles, USA)
16.50u. Commentaar door Prof. Dr. W.T.M. Frijhoff (VU Amsterdam)
17.20u. Aanbieden van de bundel aan prof. dr. W. Hogervorst, dekaan FE\V' en
prof. dr. G. Booij, voorzitter gebiedsbestuur geesteswetenschappen
NWO en aan representanten van de statistische gemeenschap
17.30-18.15u. Borrel
Zenon Tatars'ky (ed.), Uuven, 1930-1985. Ukrains'ki studenty u Uuvens'komu kato!J.-'komu
univer.ryteti (Ibe Basilean Press - Association of Ukrainian Students at the University of
Louvain; Toronto, 2001) 547 pp. Summary in French, Dutch, English (order from
Alumni Association of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Universite Catholique de
Louvain, 35 Humbercrest Blvd., Toronto, ON M6S 4K6, Canada)
It was not a whiff of a madeleine cookie that sent a group of former Ukrainian
students of the Louvain University, as it did Proust, on a road of remembrance of
things past, but a hard realization that, unrecorded, a page of history will be lost.
Hence, the commemorative book of the Ukrainian presence for over fifty years at one
of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Western Europe - Catholic
University of Louvain in Belgium. The University, founded in 1425, became famous
in the early 15th century when Erasmus, regarded as the greatest intellectual of his
time in Western Europe, made Louvain his permanent residence. There were other
famous names associated with the University and though none of the Ukrainians
really matched their grandeur, nevertheless, University of Louvain is the Alma Mater