Author: Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino, Florida Atlantic University Oxford University Press, 2020 Robert Boyle (1627-1691) believed that a reductionist conception of the mechanical philosophy threatened the heuristic power and autonomy of […]
[New Issue] Nuncius – Early Modern Geometries
The latest issue of Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science is now available online. Special issue: Early Modern Geometries Claudia Swan, Early Modern Geometries: Introduction [Open […]
[New Book] Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy
Author: Hannah Marcus Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, 2020 Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the […]
[New Book] Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy
Author: Jennifer F. Kosmin Publisher: Routledge, 2020 Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy: Contested Deliveries explores attempts by church, state, and medical authorities to regulate and professionalize the practice […]
[New Book] The Visualization of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Edited by: Marcia Kupfer, Adam S. Cohen, J.H. Chajes Brepols (Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages), 2020 This collection of essays by leading scholars reflects new interest in how […]
[Virtual Exhibit] Nova Reperta Time Machine
This site accompanies Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta, a Newberry exhibition (Fall 2020) and Northwestern University publication. Travel to the Renaissance through the Newberry’s engravings, maps, and books—using the Nova Reperta print […]
[New Issue] Centaurus – The Creative Power of Experimentation: Bacon and Della Porta
The latest issue of Centaurus: The Journal of the European Society for the History of Science is now available online. Special issue: The creative power of experimentation: Bacon and Della […]
[CFP] Intoxicating Spaces: Global and Comparative Perspectives
An international conference organised and funded by the HERA research project Intoxicating Spaces: The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600–1850, a collaboration between the University of Sheffield, […]
[New Book] Le diagnostic différentiel au Moyen Âge : distinguer les maladies d’apparence voisine
Author: Laetitia Loviconi Publisher: Classiques Garnier – Ancient and Medieval Knowledge Release date: 19 August 2020 This book analyses the place, methods, sources and issues of the differential diagnosis at […]
[New Book] Anecdotes and Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians
Ibn Abi Usaybi’ah Editor: Henrietta Sharp Cockrell, with introduction by Geert Jan van Gelder Publisher: Oxford World’s Classics To my knowledge…no one…has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through […]