Peer-reviewed articles (in reverse
order)
- [R267] All roads lead to (New) Rome, de
Grijs R., 2024, in: Costache D. (ed.), Scientific
Interests and Technological Innovation in Byzantium:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives, De Medio Aevo, issue
2024-2, submitted
- [R258] Astronomical Tent Observatories, Relics
of a Bygone Era, de Grijs R., 2023, Journal of
Astronomical History and Heritage, 26, 159
- [R256] Gravitational conundrum: Confusing
clock-rate measurements on the 'First Fleet' from England
to Australia, de Grijs R., 2022, Journal of
Astronomical History and Heritage, 25, 737
- [R254] Roger of Hereford: the twelfth-century
astronomer who put Hereford on the map, literally,
de Grijs R., 2023, The Local Historian, 53, 98-111
- [R253] The Cosmology of David Bohm: Scientific
and Theological Significance, de Grijs R., Costache
D., 2023, Theology and Science, 22, 204; doi: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2294529
- [R249] The unexpected appearance of Dawes'
Observatory on the "1808 Sydney Cove Map", de Grijs R.,
2022, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 25, 97
- [R238] Historical Chinese efforts to
determine longitude at sea, de Grijs R., 2022,
J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 25, 54
- [R234] European Longitude Prizes. IV. Thomas Axe's
Impossible Terms, de Grijs R., 2021, J. Astron. Hist.
Heritage, 24, 739
- [R233] European Longitude Prizes. III. The Unsolved
Mystery of an Alleged Venetian Longitude Prize, de Grijs R.,
2021, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 24, 728
- [R227] William Dawes: Practical astronomy on the "First
Fleet" from England to Australia, de Grijs R., Jacob A.P.,
2021, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 24, 7
- [R225] Sydney's scientific beginnings: William Dawes'
observatories in context, de Grijs R., Jacob A.P., 2021, J.
Astron. Hist. Heritage, 24, 41
- [R216] European Longitude Prizes. II. Astronomy, Religion
and Engineering Solutions in the Dutch Republic, de Grijs R.,
2021, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 24, 451
- [R215] European Longitude Prizes. I. Longitude Determination
in the Spanish Empire, de Grijs R., 2020, J. Astron. Hist.
Heritage, 23, 465
- [R214] Blame game: Restoration quarrels and the Anglo--Dutch
wars, de Grijs R., 2021, Arquebusier, doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15501.46563
- [R209] A (not so) brief history of lunar distances: Lunar
longitude determination at sea before the chronometer, de Grijs R.,
2020, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 23, 495
- [R207] Alexander Bruce, Scotland's accidental 'Scientific
Revolutionary', de Grijs R., 2020, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage,
23, 267
- [R203] Sustained cartographic innovations in nascent French
Canada: the life and times of Jean Deshayes, de Grijs R., 2020, J.
Astron. Hist. Heritage, 23, 100
- [C115] The
search for longitude: Preliminary insights from a 17th
Century Dutch perspective, de Grijs R., 2015, in: Int'l Symp.
on the Sino-French Geodesic Survey of the Qing Empire in the 18th
Century, Sanya (Hainan, China), November 2014, in press
- [C113] The Search for Longitude: Preliminary
Insights from a 17th Century Dutch Perspective, de Grijs
R., 2014, in: Int'l Symp. on the Sino-French Geodesic Survey of the
Qing Empire in the 18th Century, Sanya (Hainan, China),
November 2014, abstract book p. 12
- [O76] Of toe rags and spice boxes:
sanitation at sea, de Grijs R., 2024, Hektoen
International, Spring 2024 | History Essays
- [O75] Wigan's
Queen of Spades, de Grijs R., 2024, Past
Forward, 96, 8-9; pdf
- [O74] Ship fever: A malignant
disease of a most dangerous kind?, de Grijs R.,
2024, Hektoen
International, Spring 2024 | Infectious
Diseases
- [O73] A foul "sailor's mouth" of a
different kind, de Grijs R., 2024, Hektoen
International, Winter 2024 | History Essays
- [O72] William Dawes: Deep flaws and
sparks of brilliance, de Grijs R., 2024, Hektoen
International, Winter 2024 | History Essays
- [O71] The forgotten menace of long
naval patrols, de Grijs R., 2024, Hektoen
International, Winter 2024 | History Essays
- [O70] The grim horrors of the
orlop deck, de Grijs R., 2024, Hektoen
International, Winter 2024 | History Essays
- [O69] "Filth so foul and stench so offensive
as not to be imagined", de Grijs R., 2023, Hektoen
International, Fall 2023 | History Essays
- [O68] Stand and Deliver! A
Comprehensive Account of 'Bold' John Donohoe and his
unmerry men, de Grijs R., 2023, Blacktown
Mayoral History Prize entry (commendation); Blacktown
Memories
- [O64] Of vermicide and vermifuge: A
history of intestinal parasites at sea, de Grijs R., 2023,
Hektoen
International, Summer 2023 | History Essays
- [O62] The ships' surgeons' toxic toolkit,
de Grijs R., 2023, Hektoen
International, Spring 2023 | Infectious diseases
- [O59] Temporary insanity in tropical waters, de
Grijs R., 2023, Hektoen
International journal, Spring 2023 | History Essays
- [O58] William Dawes -- Scientist, Governor,
Abolitionist: Caught between science and religion, de Grijs R.,
Jacob A., 2023, Springer Biographies; eBook
- [O56] John and Walter
F. Mackenzie, acclaimed Wiganite brothers half a world away, de
Grijs R., 2023, Past Forward, in press
- [O54] "Tenpence" - A matter of life,
death or transportation, de Grijs R., 2022, Past
Forward, 92, 8--9; pdf,
runner-up in the 2022
local history essay competition
- [O52] "All hands to dance and skylark!" -- Shipboard
dancing in the British Navy, de Grijs R., 2022, Hektoen Int'l, History
Essays | Fall 2022
- [O51] Colonial Blacktown's inspirational "firsts",
de Grijs R., 2022, Blacktown Mayoral History Prize entry (first prize);
entry; Blacktown
Memories
- [O46] Early star charts of
the Dutch East India Company, de Grijs R., 2023. In: Essays on
Astronomical History and Heritage. A Tribute to Wayne Orchiston on
His 80th Birthday. Gullberg S.R., and Robertson P., eds. New York:
Springer, Ch. 3, in press; arXiv:2302.12992
- [O45] "Plague of the Sea,
and the Spoyle of Mariners" -- A brief history of fermented
cabbage as antiscorbutic, de Grijs R., 2021, Hektoen Int'l,
History
Essays | Spring 2021
- [O44] The curious tale of a
well-travelled Wigan long-case clock, de Grijs R., 2021, Past
Forward, 88, 6--7; pdf, runner-up in the 2021
local history essay competition
- [O43] Christopher Wren and Blood
Circulation, de Grijs R., Vuillermin D., 2020, Hektoen Int'l, Spring
2020 | Blood (honorable mention in their "Blood" essay competition)
- [O42] Longitudinal Lunacy:
Science and Madness in the Eighteenth Century, de Grijs R.,
Vuillermin D., 2019, Hektoen Int'l, Spring
2019 | Psychiatry Psychology
- [O37] Book review: Bloody Saturday:
Shanghai's Darkest Day (Paul French; Penguin Shorts, 2018), de Grijs R.,
New Orleans Review, web
feature
- [O36] "Marvailous
Cures": Sympathetic Medicine Connecting Europe and China, Vuillermin D., de Grijs
R., 2018, Hektoen Int'l, Essays
in History, Winter 2018
- [O34] Time and Time Again: Determination of Longitude at
Sea in the 17th Century, de Grijs R., 2017, Bristol, UK: IOP
Publishing Ltd., e-book
[367-page peer-reviewed monograph straddling
science and the humanities]
- [O32] Measure
of the Heart: Santorio Santorio and the Pulsilogium, de Grijs
R., Vuillermin D., 2017, Hektoen Int'l, Vol. 9, issue 3, Summer
2017, Moments in History
- [O25] The human face of
early modern astronomy in China, de Grijs R., 2016, Journal
of the Royal Asiatic Society China, 76, 57
- [O20] Book review: Libraries
of Western learning for China: Circulation of
Western books between Europe and China in the Jesuit
Mission (ca. 1650 - ca. 1750). 1. Logistics of book
acquisition and circulation; 2. Formation of Jesuit
libraries (Leuven Chinese Studies XXIII and
XXVI, Leuven University Press 2012/2013), de Grijs
R., 2015, in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,
Vol. 25, Series 3, p. 538; doi:10.1017/S1356186315000127
- [P61] Temporary
insanity in tropical waters, de Grijs R., 2023, All
Hands (Australian National Maritime Museum), 123,
35--38
- [P60] "All
Hands to Dance and Skylark!", de Grijs R.,
2022, All Hands, 121,
14--16
- [P59] Scurvy
and Sauerkraut, de Grijs R., 2021, All
Hands, 116, 14--16
- [P58] Modern
maps and the development of oceanic navigation in
East Asia, de Grijs R., 2020, All Hands
(Australian National Maritime Museum volunteers'
magazine), March 2020, Vol. 110,
p. 33
- [P55] Isaac
Thuret: celebrated craftsman denied intellectual
credit, de Grijs R., 2018; competition
submission
- [P54] The Science of Heaven
(TV documentary, 52 min), de Grijs R. (PI), Zhang Z., Seegers, R. (director), 2017
- [P48] The human face of early modern
astronomy in China, de Grijs R., The Amateur
Astronomer, February 2016, p. 73 (link to English
version; Chinese
version)
- [P45] How West met East in Chinese
astronomy, de Grijs R., 2015, Physics World,
p. 35 (January; feature
article); online
version