De martelaars der wetenschap

A collection of illustrated essays recounts how geographical exploration, atmospheric research, astronomical insight, printing, industrial innovations, transport, telegraphy, and medical advances were achieved amid resistance, hardship, and persecution. It profiles inventors, natural philosophers, engineers, and physicians, traces technological and conceptual breakthroughs across disciplines, and highlights the social, religious, and institutional obstacles that delayed progress. The work honors perseverance and sacrifice, arguing that many familiar comforts and bodies of knowledge were won through struggle and urging readers to remember those who suffered in the advance of science.