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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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Francis Bacon’s “Perceptive” Instruments	7
The Dawn of Scientific Biography	5
Mechanism, Occasionalism and Final Causes in Johann Christoph Sturm’s Physics	4
Self-knowledge, Perception, and Margaret Cavendish’s Metaphysics of the Individual	4
Enthusiasm and Platonic furor in the Origins of Cartesian Science: The Olympian Dreams	3
Tycho Brahe’s Health and Death: What Can We Learn from the Trace Element Levels Found in His Hair and Bone Samples?	3
The Southern Sky and the Renovation of the Ptolemaic Tradition in Sixteenth-Century Italian Astrologers	2
Shadows in Medieval Optics, Practical Geometry, and Astronomy: On a Perspectiva Ascribed to Thomas Bradwardine	2
‘The Curious Ways to Observe Weight in Water’: Thomas Harriot and His Experiments on Specific Gravity	2
Johannes Kepler and the Exploration of the Weight of Substances in the Long Sixteenth Century	2
Experiments in the Making: Instruments and Forms of Quantification in Francis Bacon’s Historia Densi et Rari	2
The Government of the Body: A Reconstruction of the Physiological Chapters in Nemesius of Emesa’s De natura hominis	2
Experiment and Quantification of Weight: Late-Renaissance and Early Modern Medical, Mineralogical and Chemical Discussions on the Weights of Metals	1
Mechanica Medicina Sacra: Biblical Vegetarianism in Philippe Hecquet’s Theological Medicine	1
Towards a Comparative Perspective on Newton’s Working Methods	1
“Angelical Conjunctions”: An Introduction	1
Francis Bacon on Self-Care, Divination, and the Nature–Fortune Distinction	1
Reassessing the Wider Aspects of Newton’s Thought – A Symposium	1
How Important Was Religion to Newton’s “Secular” Studies?	1
La Luce (1698) by Giovanni Michele Milani – A Final Attempt at Reconciling Atomism and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Rome?	1
Spirits and the Prolongation of Life in Francis Bacon: Commonality and Difference between the Inanimate and the Animate	1
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)	1
Madness, Pain, & Ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql: Conceptualizing Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s Medico-Philosophical Psychology	1
Inquisitor as Physician: Friars, Inquisitors, Women, and Medical Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain (1530–1650)	1
A Wine a Day …: Medical Experts and Expertise in Plutarch’s Table Talk	1

Theology in Newton’s Study of Alchemy, Chronology and Nature	1
Special Issue Introduction: Individuality, Self-Care, and Self-Preservation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Science	1
Horoscopes of the Moon: Weather Prediction as Astrology in Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos	1
Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy: An Introduction	1
From New Spain to Damascus: Ottoman Religious Authorities and the Making of Medical Knowledge on Tobacco	1
The Concept of Changing Laws of Nature in the Baconian Corpus from 1597 to 1623	1
The Sciant artifices in the Work of Albert the Great: Towards Two Kinds of Transmutation?	1
Lessons for the Historian of Newtonian Mathematics	1
Governing Health: The Doctor’s Authority, the Patient’s Agency, and the Reading of Regimina sanitatis Literature	1
The Colorless History of Pseudo-Aristotle’s De coloribus	1
A Jumble of Writings: Commentaries on Aristotle’s De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae Attributed to Adam of Buckfield	1
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	1
Exploration and Experimentation on the Weight and Density of Substances in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: Introduction	1
Giles of Lessines on Starlight and the Colour of the Sky	1
Prayer and Physic in Seventeenth-Century England	1
Shadows of the Thrown Spear: Girolamo Cardano on Anxiety, Dreams, and the Divine in Nature	1
What Did Hooke Want from the Microscope? Magnification, Matter Theory and Mechanism	1
The Distant Action of the Heavens in Girolamo Borri’s Tidal Theory	1
Astrological Self-Government at the Fifteenth-Century Court of Bourbon	1
Fascination and Action at a Distance in Francis Bacon	1
Iranian World Plant Species in the European Network of Botanical Information Exchange in the Sixteenth Century	1
Vernacular Cosmologies: Models of the Universe in Old English Literature	1
A Note on Equiprobability Prior to 1500	1
Characterisations in Britain of Isaac Newton’s Approach to Physical Inquiry in the Principia between 1687 and 1713	1
Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century, written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo	0
Continuity, Change, and Embodied Knowledge in the History of Chymistry	0
Early Modern Biomechanism and Its Contemporary Relevance	0
La thériaque: Histoire d’un remède millénaire, edited by Véronique Boudon-Millot and Françoise Micheau	0
Form and Matter of Regular Geometrical Bodies in Luca Pacioli’s Summa (1494) and Compendium de divina proportione (1498)	0
La magie naturelle, written by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples	0
Front matter	0
Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground, written by Rienk Vermij	0
Faith in Drugs: The Material and Immaterial Effects of Medication in the Early Modern French Catholic World	0
Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science ca. 750–1750, written by Elaheh Kheirandish	0
Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe	0
Book Publishing and Geometrical Skills in the Career of Sébastien Le Clerc	0
Erratum	0
Can Mixtures Be Identified by Touch? The Reception of Galen’s De complexionibus in Italian Renaissance Medicine	0
“Learn to Restrain Your Mouth”: Alchemical Rumours and their Historiographical Afterlives	0
Kepler, rénovateur de l’optique, written by Gérard Simon	0
Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac, written by Anne Lawrence-Mathers	0
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700, written by Jennifer M. Rampling	0
Complexion of the Members, Complexion of the Body, in Late-Medieval Scholastic Medicine	0
Hydrocephalus in Context: A History from Graeco-Roman Sources	0
Back matter	0
Women, Philosophy and Science: Italy and Early Modern Europe, edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Gianni Paganini	0
Forbidden Books and Royal Horoscopes: the Practice and Censorship of Astrology in Early Modern Portugal	0
Complexio and the Transformation of Learned Physiognomy ca. 1200–ca. 1500	0
A Newly Identified Treatise on the Tables of Marseilles (Twelfth Century) and Its Non-Ptolemaic Planetary Theory	0
Explaining Astrological Influence with Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Peter Megerlin’s Manuscript Astrologia Cartesiana (ASHB1530, circa 1680)	0

Reply to Mark Thakkar	0
Mechanism, vis motiva, and Fermentation: a Reassessment of Borelli’s Physiology	0
A Reply to the Four Reviewers	0
Back matter	0
Education and the Cultivation of the Early Modern Self: Cultura Animi as Self-Care in Juan Luis Vives	0
A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics, written by Michele Savonarola	0
Heart, Center of the World, and the Principle of Motion: from Aristotle to Kepler and Galileo	0
La Science prise aux mots: enquête sur le lexique scientifique de la Renaissance, edited by Violaine Giacomotto-Charra and Myriam Marrache-Gouraud	0
Jerónimo Muñoz’s Reception of Proclus’ In Euclidem: Philosophy of Mathematics and an Attempt to Prove the Parallel Postulate	0
The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science, written by Alisha Rankin	0
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550, edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia	0
Quantifications of the Secondary Qualities, Heat and Cold, on the Earliest Scales of Thermoscopes	0
Response to Comments on Priest of Nature	0
Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732, written by Harun Küçük	0
Contents to Volume 25 (2020)	0
Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, edited by Amos Bertolacci and Gabriele Galluzzo	0
Complexio in the Late-Medieval Latin De animalibus	0
Medicine, God, and the Unseen in Eleventh/Seventeenth-Century Morocco	0
Introduction: Matter and Perception – Interactions between Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Natural Philosophy	0
Front matter	0
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes, written by Philip Steadman	0
Tempering Occult Qualities: Magnetism and Complexio in Early Modern Medical Thought	0
A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg, written by Hannah Murphy	0
Complexio. Across Disciplines – Introduction to this Special Issue	0
Back matter	0
The Anatomy of Galileo’s Anagram	0
The Constitution of Air: Observation and the Limits of Temperament in Italian Renaissance Medical Writing	0
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, written by Leah DeVun	0
The Role of Sensory Qualities in Renaissance Natural History: The Case of Mattioli’s Herbal	0
Micrologus 27, The Diffusion of the Islamic Sciences in the Western World, written by Edizioni del Galluzzo	0
The Concept of Complexion in Antonio da Parma’s Medical Anthropology	0
Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe, edited by Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer and Claudia Swan	0
Cabanis’ Kunst der Koexistenz lebender Systeme	0
Plato’s Dietetics for Intellectuals in Timaeus 86b–90d	0
Beyond a Boundary: Reflections on Newton the Historian, Theologian, and Alchemist	0
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective, edited by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Cowens	0
Finally, a Monograph on Bruno’s De immenso!	0
Intensity Meters: New Notes and Discoveries on the Invention of Early Modern Precision Instruments	0
Physico-theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750, written by Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz	0
How to Send a Secret Message from Rome to Paris in the Early Modern Period: Telegraphy between Magnetism, Sympathy, and Charlatanry	0
Early Franciscans in England: Sickness, Healing and Salvation	0
Front matter	0
Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Europe, edited by Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, and Paolo Savoia	0
Princess Elisabeth’s Cautions and Descartes’ Suppression of the Traité de l’Homme	0
Practical Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Experience: Three Italian Surgeons and Their Observations	0
Eukrasia and Enkrateia: Greco-Roman Theories of Blending and the Struggle for Virtue	0
Open Forum	0
Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia and His Theory of Painting and Drawing	0
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance, written by Michael Stolberg	0
Could Siberian ‘Natural Curiosities’ Be Replaced? Bioprospecting in the Eighteenth-Century	0
Can There Be Two Perfectly Identical Complexions? Peter of Abano and Jacopo of Forlì on Avicenna’s Interdict	0
Descartes et la fabrique du monde: Le problème cosmologique de Copernic à Descartes, written by Édouard Mehl	0
Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism	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
Is Memory a Matter of Complexion? On Memory Disorders in the Latin Commentaries on De memoria (1250–1300)	0
Between Matter and Form: Complexion (mizāǧ) as a Keystone of Avicenna’s Scientific Project	0
Evidence for Re-attributing to Pierre Gassendi the Authorship of Anatomia ridiculi muris (1651) and Favilla ridiculi muris (1653)	0
Images & Color: The Strasbourg Printer Johann Schott (1477–1548) and His Circle	0