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23The Weight of the Air: Santorio’s Thermometers and the Early History of Medical Quantification ReconsideredJournal of Early Modern Studies 7 (1): 73-103. 2018.The early history of thermometry is most commonly described as the result of a continuous development rather than the product of a single brilliant mind, and yet scholars have often credited the Italian physician Santorio Santori with the invention of the first thermometers. The purpose of using such instruments within the traditional context of Galenic medicine, however, has not been investigated and scholars have consistently assumed that, being subject to the influence of atmospheric pressure…Read more
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11Cristiano Casalini, Aristotle in Coimbra: The Cursus Conimbricensis and the Education at the College of Arts. Translated by Luana Salvarani. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. viii + 195. ISBN 978-1-472-46410-1. £110.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 51 (2): 329-330. 2018.
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6Gradus Dimetiri: intensity and classification of complexions in 14th-century Italian medicineAnnals of Science 79 (4): 419-441. 2022.This paper focuses on the scholastic approach to the intensity of complexions and presents some evidence as to how the meaning of complexio evolved in fourteenth-century Italian medicine: namely, h...
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4Aristoteles mit dem Messer kommentierenNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 31 (1): 1-25. 2023.ZusammenfassungAuf der Grundlage einer Vielzahl von Quellen, darunter Manuskriptnotizen und eine breite Auswahl an veröffentlichtem Material, bietet dieser Artikel zum ersten Mal in englischer Sprache eine Analyse von Landis Werken vor ihrem medizinischen und philosophischen Hintergrund. Ich behaupte, dass Landis Werk zwar charakteristisch für das paduanische Milieu des 16. Jahrhunderts ist, dass aber seine Herangehensweise an methodische Fragen der Anatomie und der Kunst sowie seine Paraphrase …Read more
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4Dániel Margócsy, Mark Somos, and Stephen N. Joffe (eds.) 2018: The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions: (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Vol. 28). Leiden and Boston: Brill geb., xix+517 S., £ 146.00, ISBN: 978-90-04-33629-2 (review)NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 29 (3): 367-369. 2021.
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3Dániel Margócsy, Mark Somos, and Stephen N. Joffe (eds.) 2018: The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions: (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Vol. 28). Leiden and Boston: Brill geb., xix+517 S., £ 146.00, ISBN: 978-90-04-33629-2 (review)NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 29 (3): 367-369. 2021.
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3Christian K. Kleinbub 2020: Michelangelo’s Inner AnatomiesNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 30 (1): 115-117. 2021.
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2Christian K. Kleinbub 2020: Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies.: Philadelphia, PA: Penn State University Press, geb., 243 S., 40 farb. u. 77 s/w abb., 99.95 US$, ISBN: 978-0-271-08378-0 (review)NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 30 (1): 115-117. 2021.
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1Vegetable Life: Applications, Implications, and Transformations of a Classical ConceptIn Fabrizio Baldassarri & Andreas Blank (eds.), Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer. pp. 383-406. 2021.Throughout the pre-modern era, plants, animals, and humans shared a deep ontological continuity as different levels in the hierarchical organisation of life. Popularised by Lovejoy as ‘the great chain of being’, such continuity relied on extensive use of metaphors, as well as on functional and psychological analogies in which the vegetable realm was understood as the primary and most fundamental manifestation of life. An appeal to the vegetable powers and to the plant-like functions of animals c…Read more
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University of ExeterPost-doctoral Fellow
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Biology |