Editor: Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Publisher: De Gruyter, 2023 In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement […]
[New Book] Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image
Author: Rose Marie San Juan (University College London) Publisher: Penn State University Press, 2023 Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas […]
[New Book] Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters and Wonderworkers
Reframing Aristotle’s natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to […]
[New Book] On the Edge of Eternity: The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Ivano Dal Prete (Yale University) Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2022 It is commonly assumed that the creation story of Genesis and its chronology were the only narratives openly available […]
[New Book] Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds
Editors: Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College), Anna Toledano (Stanford University), Duygu Yıldırım (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Publisher: Routledge, 2023 The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds […]
[New Book] The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge
Author: Vera Keller (University of Oregon) Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023 Many accounts of the scientific revolution portray it as a time when scientists disciplined knowledge by first disciplining […]
[New Book] The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany
Author: Heidi Hausse (Auburn University) Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2023 This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. […]
[New Book] A Centaur in London: Reading and Observation in Early Modern Science
Author: Fabian Kraemer (LMU Munich) Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023 Historians traditionally argue that the sciences were born in early modern Europe during the so-called Scientific Revolution. At the […]
[New Book] Pierre Gassendi: Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy
Editors: Delphine Bellis (Paul Valéry University Montpellier), Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud University Nijmegen) Publisher: Routledge, 2023 Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy and science […]
[New Book] Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume 1: The Medieval and Early Modern Period
Editors: Anna Winterbottom (University of Sussex) & Facil Tesfaye (University of Hong Kong) Publisher: Springer, 2023 This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents essays on various aspects of […]