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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, Interventions in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 4 days, 18 hours agoEditors: Ovanes Akopyan (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) & David Rosenthal (University of Exeter)
Publisher: Routledge, 2023
How did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Issue] Early Science and Medicine – Complexio Across Disciplines in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 1 week, 4 days agoThe special issue of Early Science and Medicine (Brill), Complexio Across Disciplines, edited by Chiara Beneduce (CNRS – Paris Cité University) is now online in open access
The essays presented in this sp […]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoAccording to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] The Varnish and the Glaze: Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500 in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 4 days agoAuthor: Marjolijn Bol (Utrecht University)
Publisher: Chicago University Press, 2023
Panel painters in both the middle ages and the fifteenth century created works that evoke the luster of precious […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Conrad Gessner (1516–1565): Universal Scholar and Natural Scientist of the Renaissance in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoAuthor: Urs B. Leu (Zürich Central Library)
Publisher: Brill, 2023
The Zurich polymath Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) is known as the founder of zoology and plant geography, the father of bibliography, ed […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance: Volume 2, Concepts in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 2 months agoEditors: Keith Botelho (Kennesaw State University) & Joseph Campana (Rice University)
Publisher: Penn State University Press, 2023
Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoEditors: Fabrizio Baldassarri & Craig Martin (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2023
Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the d […]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoFrom antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Plants in 16th and 17th Century: Botany between Medicine and Science in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 4 weeks agoEditor: 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 e […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoAuthor: 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, […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters and Wonderworkers in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoEditor: Donato Verardi (Warburg Institute)
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2023
Reframing Aristotle’s natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his th […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] On the Edge of Eternity: The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 5 months, 4 weeks agoAuthor: 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 in […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoEditors: Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College), Anna Toledano (Stanford University), Duygu Yıldırım (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Publisher: Routledge, 2023
The essays and original visualizations co […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 6 months, 4 weeks agoAuthor: 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 […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 7 months agoAuthor: 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 […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] A Centaur in London: Reading and Observation in Early Modern Science in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoAuthor: 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 […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Pierre Gassendi: Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoEditors: Delphine Bellis (Paul Valéry University Montpellier), Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Publisher: Routledge, 2023
Pierre Gassendi (1 […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume 1: The Medieval and Early Modern Period in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoEditors: 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 […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Teaching Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Text and Image in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week agoEditors: Susanna Berger (University of Southern California) and Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
Publisher: Springer, 2022
This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoAuthor: Eoin Bentick (Queen Mary, University of London)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, 2022
The language of alchemy (the art of transmuting metals and manufacturing pharmaceutical medicine) is defined by […]
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