Thijs Hagendijk recently started his PhD research on the ways technical / artisanal texts were used between 1500-1750 to transmit and learn new techniques in the artisanal fields of making glass, paint and metal objects. After studies in chemistry and philosophy, Thijs graduated in the History and Philosophy of Science at Utrecht University (2015). For his thesis, he investigated the discovery of osmosis in the early nineteenth century and its evolvement into a phenomenon that was widely accepted by the nineteenth-century scientific community.