This website provides access to a digital library of texts by Dutch scholars and scientists from a variety of academic disciplines, dating from the earliest times till about 1920. The texts have been selected for their relevance for the study of the history of science and scholarship in the Netherlands by an editorial committee. The Academy has made this field the focus of its publishing programme and aims to bring together a large corpus of texts in digital format for the research community.

The works presented on this site have been digitized from the collections of libraries and archives. The materials are arranged by author and accompanied by brief introductions on the author and/or the work. Some of these introductions have been especially written for this site by experts in the field, others have been taken from existing publications. Apart from these introductory materials no further annotations, comments or translations have been added. When available English versions of texts and biographies have been used, but the library also contains texts in Latin, German, French and Dutch.