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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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
Physiognomy, Complexion, and Ingenuity: the Management of Talent in the Society of Jesus, 1540–1773	3
A Newly Identified Treatise on the Tables of Marseilles (Twelfth Century) and Its Non-Ptolemaic Planetary Theory	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
Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, edited by Lori Jones	1
Governing Health: The Doctor’s Authority, the Patient’s Agency, and the Reading of Regimina sanitatis Literature	1
The Conspiracy of Silence: Friedrich Hoffmann and the Governance of Medical Dissent in Early-Eighteenth-Century Prussia	1
Hybrid Healing: Old English Remedies and Medical Texts, written by Lori Ann Garner	1
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, written by Leah DeVun	1
The Quarrel over Swammerdam’s Posthumous Works, written by Andrea Strazzoni	1
Le langage de la raison: De Descartes à La linguistique cartésienne, written by Élodie Cassan	1
Eukrasia and Enkrateia: Greco-Roman Theories of Blending and the Struggle for Virtue	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
Complexio. Across Disciplines – Introduction to this Special Issue	1
The Distant Action of the Heavens in Girolamo Borri’s Tidal Theory	1
Back matter	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 Rays of Influence of Pierre d’Ailly’s Astrology: Manuscripts, Printed Books, and Their Fifteenth-Century Readers	1
Back matter	1
Excavating the Memory Palace: Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer, written by Seth Long	1
Shadows of the Thrown Spear: Girolamo Cardano on Anxiety, Dreams, and the Divine in Nature	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	0
Forbidden Books and Royal Horoscopes: the Practice and Censorship of Astrology in Early Modern Portugal	0
Is Memory a Matter of Complexion? On Memory Disorders in the Latin Commentaries on De memoria (1250–1300)	0
Plato’s Dietetics for Intellectuals in Timaeus 86b–90d	0
Mining for Water? Underground Sources of Hydraulic Knowledge and Expertise in Early Modern Europe	0
Behind the Texts: the Collaborative Network of Daniel Sennert’s Dissertations	0
Introduction to “The World of Daniel Sennert (1572–1637): Creation and Dissemination of Medical Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century”	0
Could Siberian ‘Natural Curiosities’ Be Replaced? Bioprospecting in the Eighteenth-Century	0
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes, written by Philip Steadman	0
Balthazar-Georges Sage and the Controversyon Animal Respiration: the Portrait of aCounter-Experiment (1777)	0
A User’s Guide to Melancholy, written by Mary Ann Lund	0
Le sommeil: Théories, représentations et pratiques (Moyen Âge et époque moderne), edited by Bernard Andenmatten, Karine Crousaz and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani	0
The Constitution of Air: Observation and the Limits of Temperament in Italian Renaissance Medical Writing	0
Appraising Paracelsian Therapy: Panaceas, Signatures, and Metallic Drugs in Sennert’s Chymical Medicine (1619)	0
Micrologus 27, The Diffusion of the Islamic Sciences in the Western World, written by Edizioni del Galluzzo	0
How to Choose between Pedagogical Coherence and Empirical Counterevidence? The Four Versions of Daniel Sennert’s Epitome naturalis scientiæ	0
An Elephant in Dublin: Animals and Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century	0
A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics, written by Michele Savonarola	0
Secrets, Lies, and Hands with Eyes: Daniel Sennert on Openness and Fraud in Chymistry and Chymical Medicine	0
Records of Trusted Medicines: Don Meir Alguades’s Tested Medicines (Segulot Muvḥanyot) in Context	0
Ibn Bājja on Climates	0
Luis Coronel’s Theory of Impetus: the First ‘Modern’ Explanation of Free Fall Motion?	0
Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century, written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo	0
Cabanis’ Kunst der Koexistenz lebender Systeme	0
Conrad Gessner and the Question of the Confessionalization of Natural History	0
Zodiacs, Eccentricity, and Confusion in an Overlooked Astronomical Treatise Connected with Roger of Hereford	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
Sennert and the Renaissance Debates on Occult Qualities and Occult Diseases	0
Printers, Translators, Epitomizers: Seventeenth-century Publications of Sennert’s Works in Italy, the Netherlands, France and England	0
Can There Be Two Perfectly Identical Complexions? Peter of Abano and Jacopo of Forlì on Avicenna’s Interdict	0
Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy, edited by Anna Marie Roos and Vera Keller	0
The Discovery of chreia: Galen’s Method of Teleological Demonstration and Its Aristotelian Background	0
Between Matter and Form: Complexion (mizāǧ) as a Keystone of Avicenna’s Scientific Project	0
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance, written by Michael Stolberg	0
Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe	0
“Alçando figuras” in the Early Modern Spanish Overseas Territories: an Insight into the Practice of Divinatory Astrology from New Spanish Records	0
Images & Color: The Strasbourg Printer Johann Schott (1477–1548) and His Circle	0
Clerselier’s Programmatic Descartes	0
Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and The Pregnant Body, written by Rebecca Whiteley	0
Climate in the Middle Ages: an Introduction	0
Education and the Cultivation of the Early Modern Self: Cultura Animi as Self-Care in Juan Luis Vives	0
Continuity, Change, and Embodied Knowledge in the History of Chymistry	0
Reintroducing Occult Qualities into (the History of) the Scientific Revolution?	0
Daniel Sennert and Padua: Personal, Scientific, and Philosophical Exchanges	0
Iranian World Plant Species in the European Network of Botanical Information Exchange in the Sixteenth Century	0
The Anatomy of Galileo’s Anagram	0
Albert the Great on Climatic Determinism	0
Front matter	0
Early Modern Natural Philosophy and the Question of Confessionalization: an Introduction	0
Astrological Self-Government at the Fifteenth-Century Court of Bourbon	0

Early Medieval Medicine: How a New Corpus of Manuscripts Is Transforming the Field	0
Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance, written by Eleanor Chan	0
Entangled Imaginations: the Boxer Codex, Imperial Visions, and Cross-Cultural Knowledge in the Late-Sixteenth-Century Western Pacific Rim	0
Medical Knowledge: Daniel Sennert’s Views on Scurvy and the Role of Dissertations for Their Dissemination	0
Catholic, Lutheran and Calvinist Scholastics on the Individuation of Material Substances	0
Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism	0
How to Send a Secret Message from Rome to Paris in the Early Modern Period: Telegraphy between Magnetism, Sympathy, and Charlatanry	0
Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science ca. 750–1750, written by Elaheh Kheirandish	0
Evidence for Re-attributing to Pierre Gassendi the Authorship of Anatomia ridiculi muris (1651) and Favilla ridiculi muris (1653)	0
Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England, written by Eoin Bentick	0
Vampyr: Storia naturale della resurrezione, written by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia	0
Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy: An Introduction	0
Intensity Meters: New Notes and Discoveries on the Invention of Early Modern Precision Instruments	0
La Luce (1698) by Giovanni Michele Milani – A Final Attempt at Reconciling Atomism and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Rome?	0
Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000–1500, edited by Christian Etheridge and Michele Campopiano	0
Daniel Sennert’s Evolving Views on Transmutation: an Assortment of Puzzles	0
Complexio and the Transformation of Learned Physiognomy ca. 1200–ca. 1500	0
Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Print, written by Rose Marie San Juan	0
Practical Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Experience: Three Italian Surgeons and Their Observations	0
Metallic Transmutation in Sennert’s Early Writings: Vegetal Analogies and the Question of Emergence	0
Hydrocephalus in Context: A History from Graeco-Roman Sources	0
The Alchemical Laboratory in Visual and Written Sources, written by Ivo Purš and Vladimír Karpenko	0
Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe, edited by Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer and Claudia Swan	0
Can Mixtures Be Identified by Touch? The Reception of Galen’s De complexionibus in Italian Renaissance Medicine	0
Complexio in the Late-Medieval Latin De animalibus	0
Confessional and Mosaic Physics: Tensions and Commonalities	0
“Northerners are Strong, Southerners are Timid”: the Notion of Climate in Medieval Physiognomy	0
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Antonio Musa Brasavola e la sua opera: Umanesimo, medicina e spiritualità alla corte estense del Cinquecento, written by Gionata Liboni	0
Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa, written by Cristina Brito	0
Daniel Sennert in Swedish Disputations 1600–1651	0
Habitual Vomiting in Classical Antiquity	0
Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Europe, edited by Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, and Paolo Savoia	0
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective, edited by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Cowens	0
Simple Motions, Simple Bodies and Aristotle’s Explanation of Locomotion in De Caelo I.2	0
A Christian History of the Earth?	0
Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician, written by David J. Collins	0
The Place of God: Dutch Philosophical and Theological Debates in the Seventeenth Century	0
Leonardo da Vinci on Frogs, Movement, Life, and Soul: an Early Physiological Experiment Reconsidered	0
Heart, Center of the World, and the Principle of Motion: from Aristotle to Kepler and Galileo	0
The Proleptic Principles of Samuel Parker	0
Book Publishing and Geometrical Skills in the Career of Sébastien Le Clerc	0
Tempering Occult Qualities: Magnetism and Complexio in Early Modern Medical Thought	0
The Concept of Complexion in Antonio da Parma’s Medical Anthropology	0
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Explaining Astrological Influence with Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Peter Megerlin’s Manuscript Astrologia Cartesiana (ASHB1530, circa 1680)	0
On Pestilence: A Renaissance Treatise on Plague, written by Girolamo Mercuriale	0
Francis Bacon on Self-Care, Divination, and the Nature–Fortune Distinction	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
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Complexion of the Members, Complexion of the Body, in Late-Medieval Scholastic Medicine	0
Tycho Brahe’s Health and Death: What Can We Learn from the Trace Element Levels Found in His Hair and Bone Samples?	0
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Erratum	0
Climate after the Middle Ages: a Look at Later Developments	0
Special Issue Introduction: Individuality, Self-Care, and Self-Preservation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Science	0
A Cultural History of Medicine in the Renaissance, edited by Elaine Leong and Claudia Stein	0
Contextualizing Daniel Sennert in the Database Project Medicinae Alumni Vitebergenses (MAV)	0
Spirits and the Prolongation of Life in Francis Bacon: Commonality and Difference between the Inanimate and the Animate	0