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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanism, vis motiva, and Fermentation: a Reassessment of Borelli’s Physiology	5
Evidence for Re-attributing to Pierre Gassendi the Authorship of Anatomia ridiculi muris (1651) and Favilla ridiculi muris (1653)	4
The Sciant artifices in the Work of Albert the Great: Towards Two Kinds of Transmutation?	3
Early Franciscans in England: Sickness, Healing and Salvation	2
Faith in Drugs: The Material and Immaterial Effects of Medication in the Early Modern French Catholic World	2
From New Spain to Damascus: Ottoman Religious Authorities and the Making of Medical Knowledge on Tobacco	2
Can There Be Two Perfectly Identical Complexions? Peter of Abano and Jacopo of Forlì on Avicenna’s Interdict	1
Climata et temperamenta: the Influence of Climate and Environment on Human Complexion in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries	1
Complexion of the Members, Complexion of the Body, in Late-Medieval Scholastic Medicine	1
Cabanis’ Kunst der Koexistenz lebender Systeme	1
Book Publishing and Geometrical Skills in the Career of Sébastien Le Clerc	1
Back matter	1
Jerónimo Muñoz’s Reception of Proclus’ In Euclidem: Philosophy of Mathematics and an Attempt to Prove the Parallel Postulate	1
Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England, written by Eoin Bentick	1
Back matter	1
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective, edited by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Cowens	1
Front matter	1
Front matter	1
Ammalarsi e curarsi nel Medioevo: Una storia sociale, written by Tommaso Duranti	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 Distant Action of the Heavens in Girolamo Borri’s Tidal Theory	1
Intensity Meters: New Notes and Discoveries on the Invention of Early Modern Precision Instruments	1
Shadows in Medieval Optics, Practical Geometry, and Astronomy: On a Perspectiva Ascribed to Thomas Bradwardine	1
Francis Bacon on Self-Care, Divination, and the Nature–Fortune Distinction	1

The Concept of Complexion in Antonio da Parma’s Medical Anthropology	1
Rusty, Suppurated, and Discharged like Sēpía Ink: Scientific Knowledge, Animal Lore, and Colour Classification in Plutarch’s De Sera Num. 26, 565b–d	1
Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3–1503/4), edited by Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar, and Cornell H. Fleischer	1
Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy: An Introduction	1
Women, Philosophy and Science: Italy and Early Modern Europe, edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Gianni Paganini	1
A Newly Identified Treatise on the Tables of Marseilles (Twelfth Century) and Its Non-Ptolemaic Planetary Theory	1
Albrecht Dürer’s Drawing Devices: an Experimental Study	1
Tempering Occult Qualities: Magnetism and Complexio in Early Modern Medical Thought	1
Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century, written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo	1
La thériaque: Histoire d’un remède millénaire, edited by Véronique Boudon-Millot and Françoise Micheau	1
Princess Elisabeth’s Cautions and Descartes’ Suppression of the Traité de l’Homme	1
How Important Was Religion to Newton’s “Secular” Studies?	1
Physiognomy, Complexion, and Ingenuity: the Management of Talent in the Society of Jesus, 1540–1773	1
Front matter	1
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance, written by Michael Stolberg	1
Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe, edited by Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer and Claudia Swan	0
Giles of Lessines on Starlight and the Colour of the Sky	0
Between Matter and Form: Complexion (mizāǧ) as a Keystone of Avicenna’s Scientific Project	0
Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe	0
Front matter	0
La magie naturelle, written by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples	0
Fascination and Action at a Distance in Francis Bacon	0
A Jumble of Writings: Commentaries on Aristotle’s De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae Attributed to Adam of Buckfield	0
Mechanism, Occasionalism and Final Causes in Johann Christoph Sturm’s Physics	0
La Luce (1698) by Giovanni Michele Milani – A Final Attempt at Reconciling Atomism and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Rome?	0
Iranian World Plant Species in the European Network of Botanical Information Exchange in the Sixteenth Century	0
Images & Color: The Strasbourg Printer Johann Schott (1477–1548) and His Circle	0
Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, edited by Amos Bertolacci and Gabriele Galluzzo	0
Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground, written by Rienk Vermij	0
The Dawn of Scientific Biography	0
Astrological Self-Government at the Fifteenth-Century Court of Bourbon	0
Characterisations in Britain of Isaac Newton’s Approach to Physical Inquiry in the Principia between 1687 and 1713	0
A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics, written by Michele Savonarola	0
Climate in the Middle Ages: an Introduction	0
Spirits and the Prolongation of Life in Francis Bacon: Commonality and Difference between the Inanimate and the Animate	0
Explaining Astrological Influence with Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Peter Megerlin’s Manuscript Astrologia Cartesiana (ASHB1530, circa 1680)	0
Prayer and Physic in Seventeenth-Century England	0
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700, written by Jennifer M. Rampling	0
Shadows of the Thrown Spear: Girolamo Cardano on Anxiety, Dreams, and the Divine in Nature	0
Plato’s Dietetics for Intellectuals in Timaeus 86b–90d	0
Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia and His Theory of Painting and Drawing	0
Back matter	0
Complexio and the Transformation of Learned Physiognomy ca. 1200–ca. 1500	0
The Anatomy of Galileo’s Anagram	0
Erratum	0
Towards a Comparative Perspective on Newton’s Working Methods	0
Micrologus 27, The Diffusion of the Islamic Sciences in the Western World, written by Edizioni del Galluzzo	0
Can Mixtures Be Identified by Touch? The Reception of Galen’s De complexionibus in Italian Renaissance Medicine	0
The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science, written by Alisha Rankin	0
The Constitution of Air: Observation and the Limits of Temperament in Italian Renaissance Medical Writing	0

The Southern Sky and the Renovation of the Ptolemaic Tradition in Sixteenth-Century Italian Astrologers	0
Education and the Cultivation of the Early Modern Self: Cultura Animi as Self-Care in Juan Luis Vives	0
Heart, Center of the World, and the Principle of Motion: from Aristotle to Kepler and Galileo	0
How to Send a Secret Message from Rome to Paris in the Early Modern Period: Telegraphy between Magnetism, Sympathy, and Charlatanry	0
Hydrocephalus in Context: A History from Graeco-Roman Sources	0
A Wine a Day …: Medical Experts and Expertise in Plutarch’s Table Talk	0
Theology in Newton’s Study of Alchemy, Chronology and Nature	0
Reply to Mark Thakkar	0
Medicine, God, and the Unseen in Eleventh/Seventeenth-Century Morocco	0
Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac, written by Anne Lawrence-Mathers	0
Finally, a Monograph on Bruno’s De immenso!	0
Is Memory a Matter of Complexion? On Memory Disorders in the Latin Commentaries on De memoria (1250–1300)	0
Ibn Bājja on Climates	0
Inquisitor as Physician: Friars, Inquisitors, Women, and Medical Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain (1530–1650)	0
Tycho Brahe’s Health and Death: What Can We Learn from the Trace Element Levels Found in His Hair and Bone Samples?	0
“Northerners are Strong, Southerners are Timid”: the Notion of Climate in Medieval Physiognomy	0
Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Europe, edited by Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, and Paolo Savoia	0
Could Siberian ‘Natural Curiosities’ Be Replaced? Bioprospecting in the Eighteenth-Century	0
Practical Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Experience: Three Italian Surgeons and Their Observations	0
The Colorless History of Pseudo-Aristotle’s De coloribus	0
Special Issue Introduction: Individuality, Self-Care, and Self-Preservation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Science	0
Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732, written by Harun Küçük	0
Vernacular Cosmologies: Models of the Universe in Old English Literature	0
Early Modern Biomechanism and Its Contemporary Relevance	0
Climate after the Middle Ages: a Look at Later Developments	0
Back matter	0
Governing Health: The Doctor’s Authority, the Patient’s Agency, and the Reading of Regimina sanitatis Literature	0
Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science ca. 750–1750, written by Elaheh Kheirandish	0
“Angelical Conjunctions”: An Introduction	0
The Concept of Changing Laws of Nature in the Baconian Corpus from 1597 to 1623	0
Forbidden Books and Royal Horoscopes: the Practice and Censorship of Astrology in Early Modern Portugal	0
Form and Matter of Regular Geometrical Bodies in Luca Pacioli’s Summa (1494) and Compendium de divina proportione (1498)	0
Beyond a Boundary: Reflections on Newton the Historian, Theologian, and Alchemist	0
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes, written by Philip Steadman	0
A Note on Equiprobability Prior to 1500	0
Horoscopes of the Moon: Weather Prediction as Astrology in Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos	0
Reassessing the Wider Aspects of Newton’s Thought – A Symposium	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
Continuity, Change, and Embodied Knowledge in the History of Chymistry	0
Response to Comments on Priest of Nature	0
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550, edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia	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
Descartes et la fabrique du monde: Le problème cosmologique de Copernic à Descartes, written by Édouard Mehl	0
Mining for Water? Underground Sources of Hydraulic Knowledge and Expertise in Early Modern Europe	0
The Quarrel over Swammerdam’s Posthumous Works, written by Andrea Strazzoni	0
A Reply to the Four Reviewers	0
La Science prise aux mots: enquête sur le lexique scientifique de la Renaissance, edited by Violaine Giacomotto-Charra and Myriam Marrache-Gouraud	0
Complexio in the Late-Medieval Latin De animalibus	0
Physico-theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750, written by Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz	0
Lessons for the Historian of Newtonian Mathematics	0
Open Forum	0
Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, edited by Lori Jones	0
Kepler, rénovateur de l’optique, written by Gérard Simon	0
Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000–1500, edited by Christian Etheridge and Michele Campopiano	0
Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism	0
Eukrasia and Enkrateia: Greco-Roman Theories of Blending and the Struggle for Virtue	0
Mechanica Medicina Sacra: Biblical Vegetarianism in Philippe Hecquet’s Theological Medicine	0
Albert the Great on Climatic Determinism	0
Complexio. Across Disciplines – Introduction to this Special Issue	0
A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg, written by Hannah Murphy	0