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[New Book] Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750
Editors: Ann Blair (Harvard University) and Kaspar von Greyerz (University of Basel) Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 This first book-length study of physico-theology questions the widespread notion of a […]
[New Book] Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages
Editors: David Juste, Benno van Dalen, Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Charles Burnett Publisher: Brepols, 2020 Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100-170 AD) is one of the most influential scholars of all […]
[New Book] Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books
Editors: Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu, Benjamin Wardhaugh Publisher: Routledge 2020 Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging […]
[CFP] Transmission of Knowledge on Fish and Aquatic Animals, Texts and Images
Ancient “ichthyology” does not concern only fish, but all “aquatic” enhydra animals (cetaceans, crustaceans, cephalopods, etc.), including certain amphibious species such as the crocodile or the hippopotamus, not to mention monsters and […]
[New Book] Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem and Its Reception
Author: Ovanes Akopyan, University of Innsbruck Publisher: Brill, 2020 In Debating the Stars, Ovanes Akopyan sheds new light on the astrological controversies that arose in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth […]
[New Book] Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500
Author: Alida C. Metcalf, Rice University Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 How did intricately detailed sixteenth-century maps reveal the start of the Atlantic World? Beginning around 1500, in the […]
[CFP] New Insights on Plagues and Epidemics in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
“It Spread Without Stop”: New Insights on Plagues and Epidemics in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras conference at the Scuola Grande di San Marco (Venice) on February 19–21, 2021. […]
[CFP] Weight and Weighing Practices in the Early Modern Period: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Weighing was a ubiquitous activity of pre– and early modern societies. The earliest and most common form of material testing, it had a crucial role in commerce and technical, artisanal, […]
[New Book] The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences
Author: Lawrence M. Principe, Johns Hopkins University The University of Chicago Press, 2020 This book reevaluates the changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close […]