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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Concept of Complexion in Antonio da Parma’s Medical Anthropology	5
Princess Elisabeth’s Cautions and Descartes’ Suppression of the Traité de l’Homme	4
Early Franciscans in England: Sickness, Healing and Salvation	3
Jerónimo Muñoz’s Reception of Proclus’ In Euclidem: Philosophy of Mathematics and an Attempt to Prove the Parallel Postulate	2
Faith in Drugs: The Material and Immaterial Effects of Medication in the Early Modern French Catholic World	2
Back matter	1
Complexion of the Members, Complexion of the Body, in Late-Medieval Scholastic Medicine	1
Book Publishing and Geometrical Skills in the Career of Sébastien Le Clerc	1
Hybrid Healing: Old English Remedies and Medical Texts, written by Lori Ann Garner	1
Francis Bacon on Self-Care, Divination, and the Nature–Fortune Distinction	1
How Important Was Religion to Newton’s “Secular” Studies?	1
Cabanis’ Kunst der Koexistenz lebender Systeme	1
From New Spain to Damascus: Ottoman Religious Authorities and the Making of Medical Knowledge on Tobacco	1
A Newly Identified Treatise on the Tables of Marseilles (Twelfth Century) and Its Non-Ptolemaic Planetary Theory	1
Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac, written by Anne Lawrence-Mathers	1
Front matter	1
Can There Be Two Perfectly Identical Complexions? Peter of Abano and Jacopo of Forlì on Avicenna’s Interdict	1
Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3–1503/4), edited by Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar, and Cornell H. Fleischer	1
Evidence for Re-attributing to Pierre Gassendi the Authorship of Anatomia ridiculi muris (1651) and Favilla ridiculi muris (1653)	1
Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England, written by Eoin Bentick	1
The Sciant artifices in the Work of Albert the Great: Towards Two Kinds of Transmutation?	1
Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century, written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo	1
Shadows in Medieval Optics, Practical Geometry, and Astronomy: On a Perspectiva Ascribed to Thomas Bradwardine	1
Intensity Meters: New Notes and Discoveries on the Invention of Early Modern Precision Instruments	1
“Angelical Conjunctions”: An Introduction	1

Climata et temperamenta: the Influence of Climate and Environment on Human Complexion in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries	1
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance, written by Michael Stolberg	1
Women, Philosophy and Science: Italy and Early Modern Europe, edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Gianni Paganini	1
Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy: An Introduction	1
Mechanism, vis motiva, and Fermentation: a Reassessment of Borelli’s Physiology	1
Albrecht Dürer’s Drawing Devices: an Experimental Study	1
The Distant Action of the Heavens in Girolamo Borri’s Tidal Theory	1
Back matter	1
La thériaque: Histoire d’un remède millénaire, edited by Véronique Boudon-Millot and Françoise Micheau	1
Tempering Occult Qualities: Magnetism and Complexio in Early Modern Medical Thought	1
Open Forum	1
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, written by Leah DeVun	1
Ammalarsi e curarsi nel Medioevo: Una storia sociale, written by Tommaso Duranti	1
Horoscopes of the Moon: Weather Prediction as Astrology in Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos	0
The Quarrel over Swammerdam’s Posthumous Works, written by Andrea Strazzoni	0
Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, edited by Lori Jones	0
Mechanica Medicina Sacra: Biblical Vegetarianism in Philippe Hecquet’s Theological Medicine	0
The Concept of Changing Laws of Nature in the Baconian Corpus from 1597 to 1623	0
Tycho Brahe’s Health and Death: What Can We Learn from the Trace Element Levels Found in His Hair and Bone Samples?	0
Medicine, God, and the Unseen in Eleventh/Seventeenth-Century Morocco	0
The Constitution of Air: Observation and the Limits of Temperament in Italian Renaissance Medical Writing	0
Back matter	0
Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, edited by Amos Bertolacci and Gabriele Galluzzo	0
Complexio. Across Disciplines – Introduction to this Special Issue	0
Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science ca. 750–1750, written by Elaheh Kheirandish	0
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550, edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia	0
The Dawn of Scientific Biography	0
Front matter	0
How to Send a Secret Message from Rome to Paris in the Early Modern Period: Telegraphy between Magnetism, Sympathy, and Charlatanry	0
A Jumble of Writings: Commentaries on Aristotle’s De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae Attributed to Adam of Buckfield	0
Eukrasia and Enkrateia: Greco-Roman Theories of Blending and the Struggle for Virtue	0
Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe, edited by Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer and Claudia Swan	0
Special Issue Introduction: Individuality, Self-Care, and Self-Preservation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Science	0
Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Europe, edited by Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, and Paolo Savoia	0
Explaining Astrological Influence with Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Peter Megerlin’s Manuscript Astrologia Cartesiana (ASHB1530, circa 1680)	0
A Wine a Day …: Medical Experts and Expertise in Plutarch’s Table Talk	0
The Colorless History of Pseudo-Aristotle’s De coloribus	0
Forbidden Books and Royal Horoscopes: the Practice and Censorship of Astrology in Early Modern Portugal	0
Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground, written by Rienk Vermij	0
Spirits and the Prolongation of Life in Francis Bacon: Commonality and Difference between the Inanimate and the Animate	0
Continuity, Change, and Embodied Knowledge in the History of Chymistry	0
La magie naturelle, written by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples	0
Plato’s Dietetics for Intellectuals in Timaeus 86b–90d	0
Early Modern Biomechanism and Its Contemporary Relevance	0
Lessons for the Historian of Newtonian Mathematics	0
Towards a Comparative Perspective on Newton’s Working Methods	0
Reply to Mark Thakkar	0
Iranian World Plant Species in the European Network of Botanical Information Exchange in the Sixteenth Century	0
Giles of Lessines on Starlight and the Colour of the Sky	0
Reassessing the Wider Aspects of Newton’s Thought – A Symposium	0

Climate after the Middle Ages: a Look at Later Developments	0
Practical Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Experience: Three Italian Surgeons and Their Observations	0
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes, written by Philip Steadman	0
Characterisations in Britain of Isaac Newton’s Approach to Physical Inquiry in the Principia between 1687 and 1713	0
Front matter	0
Back matter	0
Physico-theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750, written by Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz	0
Complexio and the Transformation of Learned Physiognomy ca. 1200–ca. 1500	0
Inquisitor as Physician: Friars, Inquisitors, Women, and Medical Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain (1530–1650)	0
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective, edited by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Cowens	0
Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia and His Theory of Painting and Drawing	0
Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000–1500, edited by Christian Etheridge and Michele Campopiano	0
Complexio in the Late-Medieval Latin De animalibus	0
A Reply to the Four Reviewers	0
Erratum	0
Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732, written by Harun Küçük	0
Is Memory a Matter of Complexion? On Memory Disorders in the Latin Commentaries on De memoria (1250–1300)	0
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700, written by Jennifer M. Rampling	0
Kepler, rénovateur de l’optique, written by Gérard Simon	0
Descartes et la fabrique du monde: Le problème cosmologique de Copernic à Descartes, written by Édouard Mehl	0
Finally, a Monograph on Bruno’s De immenso!	0
The Southern Sky and the Renovation of the Ptolemaic Tradition in Sixteenth-Century Italian Astrologers	0
Hydrocephalus in Context: A History from Graeco-Roman Sources	0
Beyond a Boundary: Reflections on Newton the Historian, Theologian, and Alchemist	0
Shadows of the Thrown Spear: Girolamo Cardano on Anxiety, Dreams, and the Divine in Nature	0
Micrologus 27, The Diffusion of the Islamic Sciences in the Western World, written by Edizioni del Galluzzo	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
Prayer and Physic in Seventeenth-Century England	0
Astrological Self-Government at the Fifteenth-Century Court of Bourbon	0
“Northerners are Strong, Southerners are Timid”: the Notion of Climate in Medieval Physiognomy	0
Theology in Newton’s Study of Alchemy, Chronology and Nature	0
Between Matter and Form: Complexion (mizāǧ) as a Keystone of Avicenna’s Scientific Project	0
Albert the Great on Climatic Determinism	0
Form and Matter of Regular Geometrical Bodies in Luca Pacioli’s Summa (1494) and Compendium de divina proportione (1498)	0
Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism	0
Response to Comments on Priest of Nature	0
La Luce (1698) by Giovanni Michele Milani – A Final Attempt at Reconciling Atomism and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Rome?	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
The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science, written by Alisha Rankin	0
Climate in the Middle Ages: an Introduction	0
A Note on Equiprobability Prior to 1500	0
Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe	0
Education and the Cultivation of the Early Modern Self: Cultura Animi as Self-Care in Juan Luis Vives	0
Mechanism, Occasionalism and Final Causes in Johann Christoph Sturm’s Physics	0
Can Mixtures Be Identified by Touch? The Reception of Galen’s De complexionibus in Italian Renaissance Medicine	0
Images & Color: The Strasbourg Printer Johann Schott (1477–1548) and His Circle	0
Could Siberian ‘Natural Curiosities’ Be Replaced? Bioprospecting in the Eighteenth-Century	0
Vernacular Cosmologies: Models of the Universe in Old English Literature	0
The Anatomy of Galileo’s Anagram	0
Ibn Bājja on Climates	0
Governing Health: The Doctor’s Authority, the Patient’s Agency, and the Reading of Regimina sanitatis Literature	0
A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg, written by Hannah Murphy	0
La Science prise aux mots: enquête sur le lexique scientifique de la Renaissance, edited by Violaine Giacomotto-Charra and Myriam Marrache-Gouraud	0
Heart, Center of the World, and the Principle of Motion: from Aristotle to Kepler and Galileo	0
A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics, written by Michele Savonarola	0
Fascination and Action at a Distance in Francis Bacon	0