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17Rendering Magnetism Visible: Diagrams and Experiments Between 1300 and 1700Centaurus 64 (2): 315-359. 2022.
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2Magnetism and NutritionIn Giouli Korobili & Roberto Lo Presti (eds.), Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism, De Gruyter. pp. 285-318. 2020.
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3Johannes de Sacrobosco und die Sphaera-Tradition in der katholischen Zensur der Frühen NeuzeitNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 26 (4): 437-474. 2018.ZusammenfassungJohannes de Sacroboscos (c. 1195–c. 1256) De sphaera, eine Einführung in die Kosmologie aus dem 13. Jahrhundert, war mit über 320 Drucken das am häufigsten edierte, kommentierte oder adaptierte astronomisch-kosmologische Handbuch der Frühen Neuzeit. Während die Rezeption und Verbreitung dieses Werkes im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert bereits vielfach untersucht wurden ist bisher übersehen worden, dass diese vermeintlich unproblematischen Sphaera-Textbücher auch vielfach Gegenstand der ka…Read more
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12Magnets and garlic: an enduring antipathy in early-modern scienceIntellectual History Review 30 (4): 523-560. 2020.For 7 December 1683, the transactions of the Oxford Philosophical Society record the following experiment: “It was deliver’d by Mr. Harris, as found true by a late triall, that Juice of Onions did...
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11Johannes des Sacrobosco and the Sphere Tradition in Early Modern Catholic CensorshipNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 26 (4): 437-474. 2018.Johannes de Sacroboscos (c. 1195–c. 1256) De sphaera, eine Einführung in die Kosmologie aus dem 13. Jahrhundert, war mit über 320 Drucken das am häufigsten edierte, kommentierte oder adaptierte astronomisch-kosmologische Handbuch der Frühen Neuzeit. Während die Rezeption und Verbreitung dieses Werkes im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert bereits vielfach untersucht wurden ist bisher übersehen worden, dass diese vermeintlich unproblematischen Sphaera-Textbücher auch vielfach Gegenstand der katholischen Zens…Read more
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295In dubio pro fide. The Fifth Council of the Lateran Decree Apostolici Regiminis (1513) and its Impact on Early Jesuit Education and PedagogyEducazione. Giornale di Pedagogia Critica 3 (1): 39-62. 2014.In 1513, the Fifth Council of the Lateran significantly impacted on early-modern Christian philosophy. As is well known, the papal bull Apostolici regiminis condemned certain philosophical doctrines contradicting the personal immortality of the soul. Moreover,the bull prohibited to defend the notion of a double truth in philosophical disputations and urged universities to meet the prescriptions of this decree. This article will shed light on how thispapal intervention in the practice of schoolin…Read more
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17Der Dämon im Text: lateinische Lesarten von De somno 453b22 und De divinatione per somnum 463b12 zwischen 1150 und 1650Recherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 83 (2): 245-311. 2016.In his short treatise De divinatione per somnum (463b12-15), Aristotle claims that dreams, though not sent by a god, are nonetheless “demonic” because “nature is demonic.” This statement has puzzled Aristotle’s commentators since the Middle Ages, being interpreted in a variety of ways even today. The present article traces interpretations of the passage from the twelfth century, when the work was translated into Latin for the first time, until the seventeenth century, when Aristotle’s works were…Read more
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17Medical Topics in the De anima Commentary of Coimbra (1598) and the Jesuits’ Attitude towards Medicine in Education and Natural PhilosophyEarly Science and Medicine 19 (1): 76-101. 2014.Early-modern Jesuit universities did not offer studies in medicine, and from 1586 onwards, the Jesuit Ratio studiorum prohibited digressions on medical topics in the Aristotelian curriculum. However, some sixteenth-century Jesuit text books used in philosophy classes provided detailed accounts on physiological issues such as sense perception and its organic location as discussed in Aristotle’s De anima II, 7–11. This seeming contradiction needs to be explained. In this paper, I focus on the inte…Read more
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723Early-Modern Magnetism: Uncovering New Textual Links between Leonardo Garzoni SJ (1543–1592), Paolo Sarpi OSM (1552–1623), Giambattista Della Porta (1535–1615), and the Accademia dei LinceiArchivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 85 (2): 303-363. 2016.William Gilbert’s work, De magnete (1600), often is referred to as the first monographic study on magnetism in the early-modern period. Recently, however, it has been argued that the Jesuit, Leonardo Garzoni, wrote an experimental study on the subject twenty years earlier and that his research influenced particularly the work of Giambattista Della Porta and Paolo Sarpi,two important protagonists in the history of studies in magnetism. However, to date, Garzoni’s authorship of an anonymous treati…Read more
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14Benet Perera started his philosophical career with lecturing philosophy at the Jesuit college in Rome in 1558. Although numerous documents reveal that his lectures were highly appreciated by his listeners, it seems that around the year 1564 Perera’s teachings were criticized by two of his colleagues at Rome, Diego de Ledesma and Achille Gagliardi. They feared Perera would give too much value to the Arab philosopher Averroes and that Perera’s method of teaching would pose a danger to Christian do…Read more
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Technische Universität BerlinInstitute for Philosophy, history of literature, science and technologyGraduate student