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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Physiognomy, Complexion, and Ingenuity: the Management of Talent in the Society of Jesus, 1540–1773	5
Albrecht Dürer’s Drawing Devices: an Experimental Study	4
Jerónimo Muñoz’s Reception of Proclus’ In Euclidem: Philosophy of Mathematics and an Attempt to Prove the Parallel Postulate	3
Princess Elisabeth’s Cautions and Descartes’ Suppression of the Traité de l’Homme	2
Climata et temperamenta: the Influence of Climate and Environment on Human Complexion in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries	2
Mechanism, vis motiva, and Fermentation: a Reassessment of Borelli’s Physiology	2
Form and Matter of Regular Geometrical Bodies in Luca Pacioli’s Summa (1494) and Compendium de divina proportione (1498)	2
Ammalarsi e curarsi nel Medioevo: Una storia sociale, written by Tommaso Duranti	2
A Newly Identified Treatise on the Tables of Marseilles (Twelfth Century) and Its Non-Ptolemaic Planetary Theory	2
From New Spain to Damascus: Ottoman Religious Authorities and the Making of Medical Knowledge on Tobacco	1
Hybrid Healing: Old English Remedies and Medical Texts, written by Lori Ann Garner	1
The Quarrel over Swammerdam’s Posthumous Works, written by Andrea Strazzoni	1
Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, edited by Lori Jones	1
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, written by Leah DeVun	1
Physico-theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750, written by Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz	1
Can Mixtures Be Identified by Touch? The Reception of Galen’s De complexionibus in Italian Renaissance Medicine	1
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700, written by Jennifer M. Rampling	1
“Northerners are Strong, Southerners are Timid”: the Notion of Climate in Medieval Physiognomy	1
The Distant Action of the Heavens in Girolamo Borri’s Tidal Theory	1
Complexio. Across Disciplines – Introduction to this Special Issue	1
Fascination and Action at a Distance in Francis Bacon	1
The Sciant artifices in the Work of Albert the Great: Towards Two Kinds of Transmutation?	1
Images & Color: The Strasbourg Printer Johann Schott (1477–1548) and His Circle	1
Reply to Mark Thakkar	1
Climate in the Middle Ages: an Introduction	1

Shadows of the Thrown Spear: Girolamo Cardano on Anxiety, Dreams, and the Divine in Nature	1
Shadows in Medieval Optics, Practical Geometry, and Astronomy: On a Perspectiva Ascribed to Thomas Bradwardine	1
Governing Health: The Doctor’s Authority, the Patient’s Agency, and the Reading of Regimina sanitatis Literature	1
Eukrasia and Enkrateia: Greco-Roman Theories of Blending and the Struggle for Virtue	1
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Forbidden Books and Royal Horoscopes: the Practice and Censorship of Astrology in Early Modern Portugal	1
Finally, a Monograph on Bruno’s De immenso!	1
Mechanism, Occasionalism and Final Causes in Johann Christoph Sturm’s Physics	1
Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe, edited by Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer and Claudia Swan	0
Intensity Meters: New Notes and Discoveries on the Invention of Early Modern Precision Instruments	0
Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century, written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo	0
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Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy: An Introduction	0
A Wine a Day …: Medical Experts and Expertise in Plutarch’s Table Talk	0
Book Publishing and Geometrical Skills in the Career of Sébastien Le Clerc	0
A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics, written by Michele Savonarola	0
Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732, written by Harun Küçük	0
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Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550, edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia	0
Heart, Center of the World, and the Principle of Motion: from Aristotle to Kepler and Galileo	0
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance, written by Michael Stolberg	0
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes, written by Philip Steadman	0
Open Forum	0
Continuity, Change, and Embodied Knowledge in the History of Chymistry	0
The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science, written by Alisha Rankin	0
Horoscopes of the Moon: Weather Prediction as Astrology in Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos	0
Could Siberian ‘Natural Curiosities’ Be Replaced? Bioprospecting in the Eighteenth-Century	0
The Southern Sky and the Renovation of the Ptolemaic Tradition in Sixteenth-Century Italian Astrologers	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
Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science ca. 750–1750, written by Elaheh Kheirandish	0
Hydrocephalus in Context: A History from Graeco-Roman Sources	0
La magie naturelle, written by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples	0
Can There Be Two Perfectly Identical Complexions? Peter of Abano and Jacopo of Forlì on Avicenna’s Interdict	0
How to Send a Secret Message from Rome to Paris in the Early Modern Period: Telegraphy between Magnetism, Sympathy, and Charlatanry	0
Practical Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Experience: Three Italian Surgeons and Their Observations	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
Complexio and the Transformation of Learned Physiognomy ca. 1200–ca. 1500	0
Mining for Water? Underground Sources of Hydraulic Knowledge and Expertise in Early Modern Europe	0
Cabanis’ Kunst der Koexistenz lebender Systeme	0
Evidence for Re-attributing to Pierre Gassendi the Authorship of Anatomia ridiculi muris (1651) and Favilla ridiculi muris (1653)	0
A Note on Equiprobability Prior to 1500	0
Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism	0
Iranian World Plant Species in the European Network of Botanical Information Exchange in the Sixteenth Century	0
Kepler, rénovateur de l’optique, written by Gérard Simon	0
The Constitution of Air: Observation and the Limits of Temperament in Italian Renaissance Medical Writing	0
The Anatomy of Galileo’s Anagram	0
Front matter	0
La thériaque: Histoire d’un remède millénaire, edited by Véronique Boudon-Millot and Françoise Micheau	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

Medicine, God, and the Unseen in Eleventh/Seventeenth-Century Morocco	0
Micrologus 27, The Diffusion of the Islamic Sciences in the Western World, written by Edizioni del Galluzzo	0
Early Franciscans in England: Sickness, Healing and Salvation	0
Prayer and Physic in Seventeenth-Century England	0
Descartes et la fabrique du monde: Le problème cosmologique de Copernic à Descartes, written by Édouard Mehl	0
Is Memory a Matter of Complexion? On Memory Disorders in the Latin Commentaries on De memoria (1250–1300)	0
The Dawn of Scientific Biography	0
Albert the Great on Climatic Determinism	0
Spirits and the Prolongation of Life in Francis Bacon: Commonality and Difference between the Inanimate and the Animate	0
Ibn Bājja on Climates	0
Special Issue Introduction: Individuality, Self-Care, and Self-Preservation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Science	0
Complexio in the Late-Medieval Latin De animalibus	0
Erratum	0
Between Matter and Form: Complexion (mizāǧ) as a Keystone of Avicenna’s Scientific Project	0
La Luce (1698) by Giovanni Michele Milani – A Final Attempt at Reconciling Atomism and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Rome?	0
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective, edited by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Cowens	0
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The Concept of Complexion in Antonio da Parma’s Medical Anthropology	0
Characterisations in Britain of Isaac Newton’s Approach to Physical Inquiry in the Principia between 1687 and 1713	0
Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe	0
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Inquisitor as Physician: Friars, Inquisitors, Women, and Medical Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain (1530–1650)	0
Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000–1500, edited by Christian Etheridge and Michele Campopiano	0
The Concept of Changing Laws of Nature in the Baconian Corpus from 1597 to 1623	0
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Astrological Self-Government at the Fifteenth-Century Court of Bourbon	0
La Science prise aux mots: enquête sur le lexique scientifique de la Renaissance, edited by Violaine Giacomotto-Charra and Myriam Marrache-Gouraud	0
Climate after the Middle Ages: a Look at Later Developments	0
Women, Philosophy and Science: Italy and Early Modern Europe, edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Gianni Paganini	0
Faith in Drugs: The Material and Immaterial Effects of Medication in the Early Modern French Catholic World	0
Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground, written by Rienk Vermij	0
Plato’s Dietetics for Intellectuals in Timaeus 86b–90d	0
Francis Bacon on Self-Care, Divination, and the Nature–Fortune Distinction	0
Mechanica Medicina Sacra: Biblical Vegetarianism in Philippe Hecquet’s Theological Medicine	0
Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Europe, edited by Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, and Paolo Savoia	0
A Jumble of Writings: Commentaries on Aristotle’s De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae Attributed to Adam of Buckfield	0
Explaining Astrological Influence with Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Peter Megerlin’s Manuscript Astrologia Cartesiana (ASHB1530, circa 1680)	0
Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, edited by Amos Bertolacci and Gabriele Galluzzo	0
The Colorless History of Pseudo-Aristotle’s De coloribus	0
Tempering Occult Qualities: Magnetism and Complexio in Early Modern Medical Thought	0
Complexion of the Members, Complexion of the Body, in Late-Medieval Scholastic Medicine	0
Education and the Cultivation of the Early Modern Self: Cultura Animi as Self-Care in Juan Luis Vives	0
“Angelical Conjunctions”: An Introduction	0
Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England, written by Eoin Bentick	0
Tycho Brahe’s Health and Death: What Can We Learn from the Trace Element Levels Found in His Hair and Bone Samples?	0