OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Physiognomy, Complexion, and Ingenuity: the Management of Talent in the Society of Jesus, 1540–1773	4
Albrecht Dürer’s Drawing Devices: an Experimental Study	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
Ammalarsi e curarsi nel Medioevo: Una storia sociale, written by Tommaso Duranti	2
Jerónimo Muñoz’s Reception of Proclus’ In Euclidem: Philosophy of Mathematics and an Attempt to Prove the Parallel Postulate	2
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
Back matter	1
Mechanism, Occasionalism and Final Causes in Johann Christoph Sturm’s Physics	1
Complexio. Across Disciplines – Introduction to this Special Issue	1
De la Lune à la Terre: Les débats sur le premier livre des Météorologiques d’Aristote au Moyen Âge latin (la tradition parisienne, XIIIe–XVe siècles), written by Aurora Panzica	1
Eukrasia and Enkrateia: Greco-Roman Theories of Blending and the Struggle for Virtue	1
A Newly Identified Treatise on the Tables of Marseilles (Twelfth Century) and Its Non-Ptolemaic Planetary Theory	1
Images & Color: The Strasbourg Printer Johann Schott (1477–1548) and His Circle	1
From New Spain to Damascus: Ottoman Religious Authorities and the Making of Medical Knowledge on Tobacco	1
Shadows of the Thrown Spear: Girolamo Cardano on Anxiety, Dreams, and the Divine in Nature	1
Physico-theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750, written by Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz	1
Back matter	1
Governing Health: The Doctor’s Authority, the Patient’s Agency, and the Reading of Regimina sanitatis Literature	1
Form and Matter of Regular Geometrical Bodies in Luca Pacioli’s Summa (1494) and Compendium de divina proportione (1498)	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
“Northerners are Strong, Southerners are Timid”: the Notion of Climate in Medieval Physiognomy	1

Climate in the Middle Ages: an Introduction	1
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, written by Leah DeVun	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
Shadows in Medieval Optics, Practical Geometry, and Astronomy: On a Perspectiva Ascribed to Thomas Bradwardine	1
The Distant Action of the Heavens in Girolamo Borri’s Tidal Theory	1
Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism	0
Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, edited by Amos Bertolacci and Gabriele Galluzzo	0
Clerselier’s Programmatic Descartes	0
Complexio and the Transformation of Learned Physiognomy ca. 1200–ca. 1500	0
Erratum	0
The Southern Sky and the Renovation of the Ptolemaic Tradition in Sixteenth-Century Italian Astrologers	0
Evidence for Re-attributing to Pierre Gassendi the Authorship of Anatomia ridiculi muris (1651) and Favilla ridiculi muris (1653)	0
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective, edited by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Cowens	0
Is Memory a Matter of Complexion? On Memory Disorders in the Latin Commentaries on De memoria (1250–1300)	0
Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Europe, edited by Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, and Paolo Savoia	0
Mining for Water? Underground Sources of Hydraulic Knowledge and Expertise in Early Modern Europe	0
How to Send a Secret Message from Rome to Paris in the Early Modern Period: Telegraphy between Magnetism, Sympathy, and Charlatanry	0
Reply to Mark Thakkar	0
A Note on Equiprobability Prior to 1500	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
Confessional and Mosaic Physics: Tensions and Commonalities	0
Complexio in the Late-Medieval Latin De animalibus	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
Micrologus 27, The Diffusion of the Islamic Sciences in the Western World, written by Edizioni del Galluzzo	0
The Place of God: Dutch Philosophical and Theological Debates in the Seventeenth Century	0
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550, edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia	0
Catholic, Lutheran and Calvinist Scholastics on the Individuation of Material Substances	0
Descartes et la fabrique du monde: Le problème cosmologique de Copernic à Descartes, written by Édouard Mehl	0
Faith in Drugs: The Material and Immaterial Effects of Medication in the Early Modern French Catholic World	0
Prayer and Physic in Seventeenth-Century England	0
Front matter	0
Could Siberian ‘Natural Curiosities’ Be Replaced? Bioprospecting in the Eighteenth-Century	0
Antonio Musa Brasavola e la sua opera: Umanesimo, medicina e spiritualità alla corte estense del Cinquecento, written by Gionata Liboni	0
Heart, Center of the World, and the Principle of Motion: from Aristotle to Kepler and Galileo	0
Francis Bacon on Self-Care, Divination, and the Nature–Fortune Distinction	0
Ibn Bājja on Climates	0
Front matter	0
The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science, written by Alisha Rankin	0
La Luce (1698) by Giovanni Michele Milani – A Final Attempt at Reconciling Atomism and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Rome?	0
Complexion of the Members, Complexion of the Body, in Late-Medieval Scholastic Medicine	0
A Jumble of Writings: Commentaries on Aristotle’s De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae Attributed to Adam of Buckfield	0
The Concept of Complexion in Antonio da Parma’s Medical Anthropology	0
“Angelical Conjunctions”: An Introduction	0
Spirits and the Prolongation of Life in Francis Bacon: Commonality and Difference between the Inanimate and the Animate	0
Vampyr: Storia naturale della resurrezione, written by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia	0
A Cultural History of Medicine in the Renaissance, edited by Elaine Leong and Claudia Stein	0
Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe	0

Le sommeil: Théories, représentations et pratiques (Moyen Âge et époque moderne), edited by Bernard Andenmatten, Karine Crousaz and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani	0
Characterisations in Britain of Isaac Newton’s Approach to Physical Inquiry in the Principia between 1687 and 1713	0
Between Matter and Form: Complexion (mizāǧ) as a Keystone of Avicenna’s Scientific Project	0
Finally, a Monograph on Bruno’s De immenso!	0
Inquisitor as Physician: Friars, Inquisitors, Women, and Medical Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain (1530–1650)	0
Back matter	0
Kepler, rénovateur de l’optique, written by Gérard Simon	0
Cabanis’ Kunst der Koexistenz lebender Systeme	0
The Alchemical Laboratory in Visual and Written Sources, written by Ivo Purš and Vladimír Karpenko	0
The Constitution of Air: Observation and the Limits of Temperament in Italian Renaissance Medical Writing	0
The Anatomy of Galileo’s Anagram	0
Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance, written by Eleanor Chan	0
Front matter	0
Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground, written by Rienk Vermij	0
Tempering Occult Qualities: Magnetism and Complexio in Early Modern Medical Thought	0
A Christian History of the Earth?	0
A Wine a Day …: Medical Experts and Expertise in Plutarch’s Table Talk	0
Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science ca. 750–1750, written by Elaheh Kheirandish	0
Plato’s Dietetics for Intellectuals in Timaeus 86b–90d	0
Albert the Great on Climatic Determinism	0
Conrad Gessner and the Question of the Confessionalization of Natural History	0
Early Modern Natural Philosophy and the Question of Confessionalization: an Introduction	0
Medicine, God, and the Unseen in Eleventh/Seventeenth-Century Morocco	0
Front matter	0
La magie naturelle, written by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples	0
Mechanica Medicina Sacra: Biblical Vegetarianism in Philippe Hecquet’s Theological Medicine	0
Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Print, written by Rose Marie San Juan	0
Tycho Brahe’s Health and Death: What Can We Learn from the Trace Element Levels Found in His Hair and Bone Samples?	0
Can There Be Two Perfectly Identical Complexions? Peter of Abano and Jacopo of Forlì on Avicenna’s Interdict	0
Education and the Cultivation of the Early Modern Self: Cultura Animi as Self-Care in Juan Luis Vives	0
Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century, written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo	0
Practical Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Experience: Three Italian Surgeons and Their Observations	0
Hydrocephalus in Context: A History from Graeco-Roman Sources	0
Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy: An Introduction	0
Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe, edited by Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer and Claudia Swan	0
The Proleptic Principles of Samuel Parker	0
Forbidden Books and Royal Horoscopes: the Practice and Censorship of Astrology in Early Modern Portugal	0
Back matter	0
Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England, written by Eoin Bentick	0
The Concept of Changing Laws of Nature in the Baconian Corpus from 1597 to 1623	0
Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000–1500, edited by Christian Etheridge and Michele Campopiano	0
Intensity Meters: New Notes and Discoveries on the Invention of Early Modern Precision Instruments	0
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes, written by Philip Steadman	0
Iranian World Plant Species in the European Network of Botanical Information Exchange in the Sixteenth Century	0
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
Book Publishing and Geometrical Skills in the Career of Sébastien Le Clerc	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
Open Forum	0
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance, written by Michael Stolberg	0
Explaining Astrological Influence with Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Peter Megerlin’s Manuscript Astrologia Cartesiana (ASHB1530, circa 1680)	0
Continuity, Change, and Embodied Knowledge in the History of Chymistry	0
Climate after the Middle Ages: a Look at Later Developments	0
Early Franciscans in England: Sickness, Healing and Salvation	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
Women, Philosophy and Science: Italy and Early Modern Europe, edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Gianni Paganini	0
Special Issue Introduction: Individuality, Self-Care, and Self-Preservation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Science	0