OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Early Science and Medicine is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Physiognomy, Complexion, and Ingenuity: the Management of Talent in the Society of Jesus, 1540–1773	5
Jerónimo Muñoz’s Reception of Proclus’ In Euclidem: Philosophy of Mathematics and an Attempt to Prove the Parallel Postulate	4
Albrecht Dürer’s Drawing Devices: an Experimental Study	3
Climata et temperamenta: the Influence of Climate and Environment on Human Complexion in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries	2
Princess Elisabeth’s Cautions and Descartes’ Suppression of the Traité de l’Homme	2
Ammalarsi e curarsi nel Medioevo: Una storia sociale, written by Tommaso Duranti	2
Mechanism, vis motiva, and Fermentation: a Reassessment of Borelli’s Physiology	2
Climate in the Middle Ages: an Introduction	1
Can Mixtures Be Identified by Touch? The Reception of Galen’s De complexionibus in Italian Renaissance Medicine	1
Shadows of the Thrown Spear: Girolamo Cardano on Anxiety, Dreams, and the Divine in Nature	1
Towards a Comparative Perspective on Newton’s Working Methods	1
Back matter	1
The Quarrel over Swammerdam’s Posthumous Works, written by Andrea Strazzoni	1
Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia and His Theory of Painting and Drawing	1
Form and Matter of Regular Geometrical Bodies in Luca Pacioli’s Summa (1494) and Compendium de divina proportione (1498)	1
A Newly Identified Treatise on the Tables of Marseilles (Twelfth Century) and Its Non-Ptolemaic Planetary Theory	1
Shadows in Medieval Optics, Practical Geometry, and Astronomy: On a Perspectiva Ascribed to Thomas Bradwardine	1
The Concept of Changing Laws of Nature in the Baconian Corpus from 1597 to 1623	1
The Distant Action of the Heavens in Girolamo Borri’s Tidal Theory	1
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700, written by Jennifer M. Rampling	1
Back matter	1
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, written by Leah DeVun	1
Complexio. Across Disciplines – Introduction to this Special Issue	1
Eukrasia and Enkrateia: Greco-Roman Theories of Blending and the Struggle for Virtue	1
Governing Health: The Doctor’s Authority, the Patient’s Agency, and the Reading of Regimina sanitatis Literature	1

Theology in Newton’s Study of Alchemy, Chronology and Nature	1
From New Spain to Damascus: Ottoman Religious Authorities and the Making of Medical Knowledge on Tobacco	1
Mechanism, Occasionalism and Final Causes in Johann Christoph Sturm’s Physics	1
Reply to Mark Thakkar	1
“Northerners are Strong, Southerners are Timid”: the Notion of Climate in Medieval Physiognomy	1
Forbidden Books and Royal Horoscopes: the Practice and Censorship of Astrology in Early Modern Portugal	1
Physico-theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750, written by Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz	1
Hybrid Healing: Old English Remedies and Medical Texts, written by Lori Ann Garner	1
Images & Color: The Strasbourg Printer Johann Schott (1477–1548) and His Circle	1
Early Modern Biomechanism and Its Contemporary Relevance	1
Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, edited by Lori Jones	1
Fascination and Action at a Distance in Francis Bacon	1
Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac, written by Anne Lawrence-Mathers	1
Vernacular Cosmologies: Models of the Universe in Old English Literature	1
The Sciant artifices in the Work of Albert the Great: Towards Two Kinds of Transmutation?	1
Complexion of the Members, Complexion of the Body, in Late-Medieval Scholastic Medicine	0
La Luce (1698) by Giovanni Michele Milani – A Final Attempt at Reconciling Atomism and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Rome?	0
The Southern Sky and the Renovation of the Ptolemaic Tradition in Sixteenth-Century Italian Astrologers	0
Medicine, God, and the Unseen in Eleventh/Seventeenth-Century Morocco	0
“Angelical Conjunctions”: An Introduction	0
Tycho Brahe’s Health and Death: What Can We Learn from the Trace Element Levels Found in His Hair and Bone Samples?	0
Between Matter and Form: Complexion (mizāǧ) as a Keystone of Avicenna’s Scientific Project	0
A Note on Equiprobability Prior to 1500	0
Evidence for Re-attributing to Pierre Gassendi the Authorship of Anatomia ridiculi muris (1651) and Favilla ridiculi muris (1653)	0
Rusty, Suppurated, and Discharged like Sēpía Ink: Scientific Knowledge, Animal Lore, and Colour Classification in Plutarch’s De Sera Num. 26, 565b–d	0
In Search of the Unicorn’s Virtue in a Rhino Horn Cup: Consumption of Rhino Horns and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern Lisbon	0
Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy: An Introduction	0
Hydrocephalus in Context: A History from Graeco-Roman Sources	0
A Wine a Day …: Medical Experts and Expertise in Plutarch’s Table Talk	0
Finally, a Monograph on Bruno’s De immenso!	0
Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, edited by Amos Bertolacci and Gabriele Galluzzo	0
Astrological Self-Government at the Fifteenth-Century Court of Bourbon	0
Front matter	0
Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground, written by Rienk Vermij	0
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550, edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia	0
Iranian World Plant Species in the European Network of Botanical Information Exchange in the Sixteenth Century	0
Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3–1503/4), edited by Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar, and Cornell H. Fleischer	0
The Anatomy of Galileo’s Anagram	0
Albert the Great on Climatic Determinism	0
Horoscopes of the Moon: Weather Prediction as Astrology in Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos	0
Special Issue Introduction: Individuality, Self-Care, and Self-Preservation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Science	0
Plato’s Dietetics for Intellectuals in Timaeus 86b–90d	0
Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000–1500, edited by Christian Etheridge and Michele Campopiano	0
The Dawn of Scientific Biography	0
A Jumble of Writings: Commentaries on Aristotle’s De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae Attributed to Adam of Buckfield	0
Back matter	0
Sharing the Knowledge at Habsburg Medical Faculties in the Baroque Era: The Case of Jan František Löw’s Reading List for Medical Students in Prague (1693)	0
Complexio in the Late-Medieval Latin De animalibus	0
Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Europe, edited by Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, and Paolo Savoia	0
Practical Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Experience: Three Italian Surgeons and Their Observations	0

Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism	0
The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science, written by Alisha Rankin	0
Erratum	0
Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century, written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo	0
How to Send a Secret Message from Rome to Paris in the Early Modern Period: Telegraphy between Magnetism, Sympathy, and Charlatanry	0
Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe, edited by Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer and Claudia Swan	0
Front matter	0
Francis Bacon on Self-Care, Divination, and the Nature–Fortune Distinction	0
Inquisitor as Physician: Friars, Inquisitors, Women, and Medical Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain (1530–1650)	0
Could Siberian ‘Natural Curiosities’ Be Replaced? Bioprospecting in the Eighteenth-Century	0
Faith in Drugs: The Material and Immaterial Effects of Medication in the Early Modern French Catholic World	0
Kepler, rénovateur de l’optique, written by Gérard Simon	0
Beyond a Boundary: Reflections on Newton the Historian, Theologian, and Alchemist	0
Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732, written by Harun Küçük	0
Reassessing the Wider Aspects of Newton’s Thought – A Symposium	0
La thériaque: Histoire d’un remède millénaire, edited by Véronique Boudon-Millot and Françoise Micheau	0
Book Publishing and Geometrical Skills in the Career of Sébastien Le Clerc	0
Mining for Water? Underground Sources of Hydraulic Knowledge and Expertise in Early Modern Europe	0
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance, written by Michael Stolberg	0
Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science ca. 750–1750, written by Elaheh Kheirandish	0
Back matter	0
Climate after the Middle Ages: a Look at Later Developments	0
Mechanica Medicina Sacra: Biblical Vegetarianism in Philippe Hecquet’s Theological Medicine	0
Front matter	0
Continuity, Change, and Embodied Knowledge in the History of Chymistry	0
Prayer and Physic in Seventeenth-Century England	0
A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg, written by Hannah Murphy	0
Is Memory a Matter of Complexion? On Memory Disorders in the Latin Commentaries on De memoria (1250–1300)	0
Can There Be Two Perfectly Identical Complexions? Peter of Abano and Jacopo of Forlì on Avicenna’s Interdict	0
La magie naturelle, written by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples	0
Spirits and the Prolongation of Life in Francis Bacon: Commonality and Difference between the Inanimate and the Animate	0
Descartes et la fabrique du monde: Le problème cosmologique de Copernic à Descartes, written by Édouard Mehl	0
Giles of Lessines on Starlight and the Colour of the Sky	0
Complexio and the Transformation of Learned Physiognomy ca. 1200–ca. 1500	0
The Colorless History of Pseudo-Aristotle’s De coloribus	0
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective, edited by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Cowens	0
The Concept of Complexion in Antonio da Parma’s Medical Anthropology	0
Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England, written by Eoin Bentick	0
Cabanis’ Kunst der Koexistenz lebender Systeme	0
Ibn Bājja on Climates	0
Early Franciscans in England: Sickness, Healing and Salvation	0
Characterisations in Britain of Isaac Newton’s Approach to Physical Inquiry in the Principia between 1687 and 1713	0
Lessons for the Historian of Newtonian Mathematics	0
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes, written by Philip Steadman	0
A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics, written by Michele Savonarola	0
The Constitution of Air: Observation and the Limits of Temperament in Italian Renaissance Medical Writing	0
La Science prise aux mots: enquête sur le lexique scientifique de la Renaissance, edited by Violaine Giacomotto-Charra and Myriam Marrache-Gouraud	0
Women, Philosophy and Science: Italy and Early Modern Europe, edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Gianni Paganini	0
Tempering Occult Qualities: Magnetism and Complexio in Early Modern Medical Thought	0
How Important Was Religion to Newton’s “Secular” Studies?	0
Front matter	0
Open Forum	0
Intensity Meters: New Notes and Discoveries on the Invention of Early Modern Precision Instruments	0
Heart, Center of the World, and the Principle of Motion: from Aristotle to Kepler and Galileo	0
Explaining Astrological Influence with Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Peter Megerlin’s Manuscript Astrologia Cartesiana (ASHB1530, circa 1680)	0
Education and the Cultivation of the Early Modern Self: Cultura Animi as Self-Care in Juan Luis Vives	0
A Reply to the Four Reviewers	0
Response to Comments on Priest of Nature	0
Micrologus 27, The Diffusion of the Islamic Sciences in the Western World, written by Edizioni del Galluzzo	0
Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe	0