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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Physiognomy, Complexion, and Ingenuity: the Management of Talent in the Society of Jesus, 1540–1773	5
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
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
Form and Matter of Regular Geometrical Bodies in Luca Pacioli’s Summa (1494) and Compendium de divina proportione (1498)	2
Ammalarsi e curarsi nel Medioevo: Una storia sociale, written by Tommaso Duranti	2
A Newly Identified Treatise on the Tables of Marseilles (Twelfth Century) and Its Non-Ptolemaic Planetary Theory	2
Princess Elisabeth’s Cautions and Descartes’ Suppression of the Traité de l’Homme	2
Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, edited by Lori Jones	1
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, written by Leah DeVun	1
Physico-theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750, written by Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz	1
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
“Northerners are Strong, Southerners are Timid”: the Notion of Climate in Medieval Physiognomy	1
The Distant Action of the Heavens in Girolamo Borri’s Tidal Theory	1
Complexio. Across Disciplines – Introduction to this Special Issue	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
Images & Color: The Strasbourg Printer Johann Schott (1477–1548) and His Circle	1
Reply to Mark Thakkar	1
Climate in the Middle Ages: an Introduction	1
Shadows of the Thrown Spear: Girolamo Cardano on Anxiety, Dreams, and the Divine in Nature	1
Shadows in Medieval Optics, Practical Geometry, and Astronomy: On a Perspectiva Ascribed to Thomas Bradwardine	1
Governing Health: The Doctor’s Authority, the Patient’s Agency, and the Reading of Regimina sanitatis Literature	1

Eukrasia and Enkrateia: Greco-Roman Theories of Blending and the Struggle for Virtue	1
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Back matter	1
Forbidden Books and Royal Horoscopes: the Practice and Censorship of Astrology in Early Modern Portugal	1
Finally, a Monograph on Bruno’s De immenso!	1
Mechanism, Occasionalism and Final Causes in Johann Christoph Sturm’s Physics	1
From New Spain to Damascus: Ottoman Religious Authorities and the Making of Medical Knowledge on Tobacco	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
Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century, written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo	0
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550, edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia	0
Heart, Center of the World, and the Principle of Motion: from Aristotle to Kepler and Galileo	0
Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy: An Introduction	0
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes, written by Philip Steadman	0
Continuity, Change, and Embodied Knowledge in the History of Chymistry	0
Book Publishing and Geometrical Skills in the Career of Sébastien Le Clerc	0
The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science, written by Alisha Rankin	0
Could Siberian ‘Natural Curiosities’ Be Replaced? Bioprospecting in the Eighteenth-Century	0
A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics, written by Michele Savonarola	0
The Southern Sky and the Renovation of the Ptolemaic Tradition in Sixteenth-Century Italian Astrologers	0
Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science ca. 750–1750, written by Elaheh Kheirandish	0
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Hydrocephalus in Context: A History from Graeco-Roman Sources	0
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance, written by Michael Stolberg	0
How to Send a Secret Message from Rome to Paris in the Early Modern Period: Telegraphy between Magnetism, Sympathy, and Charlatanry	0
Can There Be Two Perfectly Identical Complexions? Peter of Abano and Jacopo of Forlì on Avicenna’s Interdict	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
Open Forum	0
Practical Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Experience: Three Italian Surgeons and Their Observations	0
Cabanis’ Kunst der Koexistenz lebender Systeme	0
Horoscopes of the Moon: Weather Prediction as Astrology in Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos	0
Mining for Water? Underground Sources of Hydraulic Knowledge and Expertise in Early Modern Europe	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
A Note on Equiprobability Prior to 1500	0
La magie naturelle, written by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples	0
Kepler, rénovateur de l’optique, written by Gérard Simon	0
Complexio and the Transformation of Learned Physiognomy ca. 1200–ca. 1500	0
The Anatomy of Galileo’s Anagram	0
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Evidence for Re-attributing to Pierre Gassendi the Authorship of Anatomia ridiculi muris (1651) and Favilla ridiculi muris (1653)	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
Medicine, God, and the Unseen in Eleventh/Seventeenth-Century Morocco	0
Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism	0
Early Franciscans in England: Sickness, Healing and Salvation	0
Descartes et la fabrique du monde: Le problème cosmologique de Copernic à Descartes, written by Édouard Mehl	0
Iranian World Plant Species in the European Network of Botanical Information Exchange in the Sixteenth Century	0
Is Memory a Matter of Complexion? On Memory Disorders in the Latin Commentaries on De memoria (1250–1300)	0
Albert the Great on Climatic Determinism	0
The Constitution of Air: Observation and the Limits of Temperament in Italian Renaissance Medical Writing	0
Spirits and the Prolongation of Life in Francis Bacon: Commonality and Difference between the Inanimate and the Animate	0

Special Issue Introduction: Individuality, Self-Care, and Self-Preservation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Science	0
La thériaque: Histoire d’un remède millénaire, edited by Véronique Boudon-Millot and Françoise Micheau	0
Complexio in the Late-Medieval Latin De animalibus	0
Micrologus 27, The Diffusion of the Islamic Sciences in the Western World, written by Edizioni del Galluzzo	0
Between Matter and Form: Complexion (mizāǧ) as a Keystone of Avicenna’s Scientific Project	0
Erratum	0
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Prayer and Physic in Seventeenth-Century England	0
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective, edited by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Cowens	0
Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe	0
The Dawn of Scientific Biography	0
Characterisations in Britain of Isaac Newton’s Approach to Physical Inquiry in the Principia between 1687 and 1713	0
Ibn Bājja on Climates	0
Inquisitor as Physician: Friars, Inquisitors, Women, and Medical Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain (1530–1650)	0
La Luce (1698) by Giovanni Michele Milani – A Final Attempt at Reconciling Atomism and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Rome?	0
Front matter	0
The Concept of Complexion in Antonio da Parma’s Medical Anthropology	0
La Science prise aux mots: enquête sur le lexique scientifique de la Renaissance, edited by Violaine Giacomotto-Charra and Myriam Marrache-Gouraud	0
Climate after the Middle Ages: a Look at Later Developments	0
Front matter	0
Faith in Drugs: The Material and Immaterial Effects of Medication in the Early Modern French Catholic World	0
Plato’s Dietetics for Intellectuals in Timaeus 86b–90d	0
Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000–1500, edited by Christian Etheridge and Michele Campopiano	0
Francis Bacon on Self-Care, Divination, and the Nature–Fortune Distinction	0
Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Europe, edited by Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, and Paolo Savoia	0
The Concept of Changing Laws of Nature in the Baconian Corpus from 1597 to 1623	0
A Jumble of Writings: Commentaries on Aristotle’s De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae Attributed to Adam of Buckfield	0
Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, edited by Amos Bertolacci and Gabriele Galluzzo	0
Astrological Self-Government at the Fifteenth-Century Court of Bourbon	0
The Colorless History of Pseudo-Aristotle’s De coloribus	0
Complexion of the Members, Complexion of the Body, in Late-Medieval Scholastic Medicine	0
Women, Philosophy and Science: Italy and Early Modern Europe, edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Gianni Paganini	0
Education and the Cultivation of the Early Modern Self: Cultura Animi as Self-Care in Juan Luis Vives	0
Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England, written by Eoin Bentick	0
Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground, written by Rienk Vermij	0
“Angelical Conjunctions”: An Introduction	0
Intensity Meters: New Notes and Discoveries on the Invention of Early Modern Precision Instruments	0
Mechanica Medicina Sacra: Biblical Vegetarianism in Philippe Hecquet’s Theological Medicine	0
Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe, edited by Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer and Claudia Swan	0
Explaining Astrological Influence with Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Peter Megerlin’s Manuscript Astrologia Cartesiana (ASHB1530, circa 1680)	0
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Tempering Occult Qualities: Magnetism and Complexio in Early Modern Medical Thought	0
A Wine a Day …: Medical Experts and Expertise in Plutarch’s Table Talk	0
Tycho Brahe’s Health and Death: What Can We Learn from the Trace Element Levels Found in His Hair and Bone Samples?	0
Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732, written by Harun Küçük	0