OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Science and Medicine is 1. 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
Tycho Brahe’s Health and Death: What Can We Learn from the Trace Element Levels Found in His Hair and Bone Samples?	3
Enthusiasm and Platonic furor in the Origins of Cartesian Science: The Olympian Dreams	3
‘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
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
Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy: An Introduction	1
The Concept of Changing Laws of Nature in the Baconian Corpus from 1597 to 1623	1
From New Spain to Damascus: Ottoman Religious Authorities and the Making of Medical Knowledge on Tobacco	1
Lessons for the Historian of Newtonian Mathematics	1
The Sciant artifices in the Work of Albert the Great: Towards Two Kinds of Transmutation?	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
Astrological Self-Government at the Fifteenth-Century Court of Bourbon	1
The Distant Action of the Heavens in Girolamo Borri’s Tidal Theory	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
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
Reassessing the Wider Aspects of Newton’s Thought – A Symposium	1
Francis Bacon on Self-Care, Divination, and the Nature–Fortune Distinction	1
La Luce (1698) by Giovanni Michele Milani – A Final Attempt at Reconciling Atomism and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Rome?	1
How Important Was Religion to Newton’s “Secular” Studies?	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