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Edelstein Senior Fellow (Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, USA, 2008-2009)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Centre for History of Science, Ghent University, Belgium, 2005-2008)
Research Associate (Center for History of Science, Liege University, Belgium, 2003-2005)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, London, UK, 2002-2003)
Research Associate (Center for History of Science, Liege University, Belgium, 2000-2002)
Ph D (Lille 3, France, 1999)
Books
--- Le concept de semence dans les théories de la matière à la Renaissance : de Marsile Ficin à Pierre Gassendi (Collection of Studies from the International Academy of the History of Science, 72), Turnhout, Brepols, 2005. See contents & index.
Essay Reviews:
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Christoph Lüthy, "Seeds Sprouting Everywhere", Annals
of Science, 64 (2007), pp. 411-420. ![]()
Reviews:
- Antonio Clericuzio, Bruniana & Campanelliana,
11 (2005), pp. 594-597.
- Guido Giglioni, Early Science and Medicine, 11 (2006), pp. 117-119.
- Peter Anstey, Isis, 97 (2006), pp. 151-152.
- Craig Martin, Renaissance Quarterly,
59 (2006), pp. 226-227.
- Antonio Clericuzio, Metascience, 15 (2006), pp. 315-318.
- Pierre Savaton, Revue d’histoire
des sciences, 61 (2008), pp. 218-220.
- Remi Francowiack, Ambix, 56 (2009), p. 89.
Awards:
- "The Book of the Year Award" (2005) fom the Spanish e-journal AZOGUE (May 2006)
- The first "Sournia Prize" (2006) from the French Society for History of Medicine
--- (ed.), Cornelius Gemma: Cosmology, Medicine and
Natural Philosophy in Renaissance

Reviews:
-
Olivia Catanorchi & Cinzia Tozzini,
Bruniana & Campanelliana, 15 (2009), pp. 222-223.
- Patrick Boner, Renaissance Quarterly,
63 (2010), pp. 234-236. ![]()
--- Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy:
Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the Soul,
--- (ed.), Justus Lipsius and
Natural Philosophy,
Articles
2001
--- "Les Paradoxes d'Etienne de Clave et le concept de
semence dans sa minéralogie," Corpus: revue de philosophie, 39 (2001),
pp. 45-71.
--- "Paracelsisme, néoplatonisme et médecine hermétique dans la
théorie de la matière de Joseph Du Chesne à travers son Ad veritatem hermeticae
medicinae (1604)," Archives
internationales d'histoires des sciences, 51 (2001), pp. 9-37.
2002
--- "Concepts of Seeds and Nature in the Work of
Marsilio Ficino," in Michael J. B. Allen & Valery Rees (eds.), Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His
Philosophy, His Legacy,
--- "Renaissance Concept of Seeds: A Missing Link between Medieval Philosophy and Modern Science," Thought, 129 (December, 2002), pp. 129-153.
--- "La fortune du concept de semence de Marsile Ficin au XVIe
siècle," Accademia: revue de la société Marsile
Ficin, 4 (2002), pp. 109-132.
2003
--- "Le concept de semence de Pierre Gassendi entre les
théories de la matière et les sciences de la vie au XVIIe siècle," Medicina nei Secoli, 15 (2003),
pp. 205-226.
--- "Quelques remarques sur les sources de Robert Boyle en guise
du compte rendu de la nouvelle édition de son œuvre," Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, 53 (2003), pp. 303-318.
2004
--- "Nouvelles découvertes sur le concept de semence aux XVIe
et XVIIe siècles," in Actes
du congrès d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (Lille, mai 2001),
Lille, Lille UP, 2004 [Cahiers d'histoire et de philosophie des
sciences, numéro hors série], pp. 86-88.
2005
--- "Alter Galenus: Jean Fernel et son interprétation
platonico-chrétienne de Galien," Early Science and Medicine, 10 (2005), pp. 1-35.
--- (with H.
Yoshimoto) "Anatomizing the Sceptical Chymist: Robert
Boyle and the Secret of his Early Sources on the Growth of Metals," Early Science and Medicine, 10 (2005), pp. 453-477.
2006
--- "Ficin, Fernel
et Fracastor autour du concept de semence: aspects platoniciens de seminaria," in Alessandro
Pastore & Enrico Peruzzi (eds),
Girolamo Fracastoro
fra medicina, filosofia e scienze della natura: atti del convegno
internazionale di studi in occasione del 450° anniversario della morte, Florence, Olschki, 2006,
pp. 245-260.
--- "Âme de la terre, génération
spontanée et origine de la vie: Fortunio Liceti critique de Marsile Ficin," Bruniana & Campanelliana, 12 (2006), pp. 451-469.
2007
--- "Interprétation chymique de la
création et origine corpusculaire de la vie chez Athanasius Kircher," Annals of Science,
64 (2007), pp. 217-234.
--- "Semence, vertu formatrice
et intellect agent chez Nicolò Leoniceno entre la tradition arabo-latine et la
renaissance des commentateurs grecs,"
Early Science and Medicine,
12 (2007), pp. 134-165.
--- "Athanasius Kircher’s Chymical Interpretation of the
Creation and Spontaneous Generation," in Lawrence M. Principe (ed.), Chymists and
Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and
Early Modern Chemistry, New
York, Science History Publications, 2007, pp. 77-87.
--- "The Invisible Hand of God in Seeds:
Jocob Schegk's Theory of Plastic Faculty," Early Science and Medicine, 12 (2007), pp. 377-404.
--- "La main de Dieu entre l’âme et la nature: la
théorie de la faculté plastique de Jacob Schegk,"
Journal de la Renaissance, 5 (2007),
pp. 205-222.
--- "Atomes vivants, origine de l’âme et génération
spontanée chez Daniel Sennert," Bruniana & Campanelliana, 13 (2007), pp. 477-495.
2008
--- "‘Prisca
Thelogia’ and Neoplatonic Reading of Hippocrates in Fernel, Cardano and
Gemma," in Hiro Hirai (ed.), Cornelius
Gemma: Cosmology, Medicine and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance
--- "Les logoi
spermatikoi et le concept de semence dans la minéralogie et la cosmogonie
de Paracelse," Revue d'histoire
des sciences, 61 (2008),
pp. 245-264.
2009
--- (with H. Yoshimoto)
"Anatomie du chymiste
sceptique: Robert Boyle et le secret de ses premières sources sur la croissance
des métaux," in Charles Ramon et Myriam Dennehy
(eds.), La
philosophie naturelle de Robert Boyle, Paris, Vrin,
2009, pp. 93-116.
--- "Lecture néoplatonicienne d’Hippocrate chez
Fernel, Cardan et Gemma," in Jacqueline Vons
(ed.), Pratique
et pensée médicales à la Renaissance, Paris, De Boccard,
pp. 91-116.
--- "L’âme
du monde chez Juste Lipse entre théologie cosmique romaine et prisca theologia renaissante," Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 93 (2009), pp. 251-273.
2010
--- (ed.), Microcosmos: Early Modern Intellectual History,
vol. 1 (![]()
Forthcoming
--- "Earth's Soul and Spontaneous Generation: Fortunio Liceti's Criticism against
Ficino's Ideas
on the Origin of Life," in Stephen Clucas et al.
(eds), Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio
Ficino and His Influence, Leiden, Brill,
forthcoming.
---- "Lipsius on
the World-Soul between Roman Cosmic Theology and Renaissance Prisca Theologia", in Hiro Hirai (ed.), Justus Lipsius and
Natural Philosophy, Brussels, Royal Academy of Belgium, forthcoming.
--- "Formative Power,
Soul and Intellect in Nicolò Leoniceno
between the Arabo-Latin Tradition and the Renaissance
of Greek Commentators," in Paul Bakker & Cees Leijenhorst (eds.), Psychology and the Other Disciplines: A Case
of Cross-Disciplinary Interaction (1250-1750),
--- "Living
Atoms, Hylomorphism and Spontaneous Generation in
Daniel Sennert," in Mordechai
Feingold et al. (eds.), Hylomorphism, forthcoming.
--- "The World-Soul,
--- "Concept of
Seeds in the Mineralogy and Cosmogony of Paracelsus"
--- "The Word of God and the
Universal Medicine in the Chemical Philosophy of Oswald Croll," in Ivo
Purs et al. (eds.), Alchemy in the Age of Rudolf II, Prague, Artefactum, forthcoming in 2010.
--- "The World-Spirit and Quintessence in the Chymical Philosophy of Joseph Du Chesne," in Miguel Lopez et al. (eds.), Chymia:
Science and Nature in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750),
Conference Papers
--- "Les
logoi spermatikoi
et le concept de semence dans la minéralogie de Paracelse," at the
international colloquium Presence
of Stoic Physics in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century
Natural Philosophy (May 16, 1997, Lille).
--- "Biological Models in Renaissance Chemistry: The Case of the Concept
of Seed," at the international 13th DHS-DLMPS
Joint Conference: Scientific Models: Their Historical and Philosophical
Relevance (October 19, 2000,
--- "Le
concept de semence de Pierre Gassendi entre les théories de la matière et les
sciences de la vie au XVIIe siècle," at the
international colloquium Meteria e vita (December
16, 2000, Cassino).
--- "Nouvelles
découvertes sur le concept de semence aux XVIe et XVIIe
siècles," at the Congrès
d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (May 2001, Lille).
--- " ‘De novo’ or ‘ex semine’:
Kircher and the Problem of Spontaneous Generation," at the international conference Scientific
Culture in Early Modern Rome (October 11, 2003, Warburg Institute,
--- "Ficin, Fernel et Fracastor autour du concept
de semence," at the international conference
Girolamo Fracastoro: convegno internazionale di
studi in occasione del 450o anniversario della morte, at University of Verona (October 10, 2003, Verona).
--- "Ficino's
Idea on the Origin of Life in the Mirror of Fortunio Liceti's Criticism (1618),"
at the international colloquium Laus
Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and his Influence (September 18, 2004,
--- (with H. Yoshimoto) "Anatomizing the Sceptical Chymist: Robert Boyle's Early Sources," at the international colloquium La philosophie naturelle de Robert Boyle (March 12, 2005, Brodeaux).
--- "Concept of Seeds in Renaissance Matter Theories from Marsilio Ficino
to Pierre Gassendi," at the series seminar Matter and Motion from Antiquity to the
Early Modern Time (April 8, 2005,
--- "Kiercher's Chymical
Interpretation of the Creation and Spontaneous Generation," at the international conference History of Alchemy
and Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (July 19-22, 2006,
Chemical Heritage Foundation,
--- "Préhistoire
des théories de la préformation et de la préexistence des germes : le
concept de semence à la Renaissance (1500-1650)," at
the international conference Préformation, Epigenèse et Préexistence des Germes (October 23, 2006, Muséum d’histoire naturelle,
Paris).
--- "Prisca theologia and Neoplatonic
Reading of Hippocrates in Fernel, Cardano and
Gemma," at the international conference Cornelius Gemma (1535-1578): Medicine, Cosmology,
and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Louvain (February 23, 2007,
--- "Atomes,
origine de l’âme et génération spontanée chez Daniel Sennert
(et Fortunio Liceti)," at the international conference
Chimie et médicine (March 26, 2007,
Lille).
--- "Lecture
néoplatonicienne d’Hippocrate chez Fernel, Cardan et Gemma," at the international conference Pratique
et pensée médicales à la Renaissance (July 6, 2007, Tours).
--- "Mechanical Spirits and
Seminal Principles in Van Helmont and Pierre
Gassendi," at the annual meeting of HSS (November 2, 2007,
--- "Seneca's Natural Questions in Justus Lipsius' Physiologia Stoicorum (1604)," at the
international conference Seneca e le scienze (November 14, 2007,
--- "Lipsius on the World-Soul," at the international
conference Justus Lipsius
and Natural Philosophy (November 30, 2007,
--- "Génération, allégorie sexuelle et concept de semence chez
Paracelse", paper read
at the workshop Alchemie und Gendre (February 22, 2008, Berlin).
--- "Jean Fernel commentateur de Galien à propos de l’immortalité de
l’âme," at the seminar
Commentaire médical à la Renaissance
(March 28, 2008, Paris).
---
"Cornelius Gemma médecin
astrologue," at the seminar Sciences et techniques: histoires
belges! (Avril 25, 2008, Louvain-la-Neuve).
---
"Atomism, Hylomorphism and Biology in Daniel Sennert," at the international conference Hylomorphism
(May 23, 2008, Caltech,
--- "Kircher’s Geo-Cosmography?,"
at the international conference Cosmographia
(May 30, 2008,
--- "The Word of God and
Universal Medicine in the Chemical Philosophy of Oswald Croll," at the
international conference Chymia (September 12, 2008, El
--- "L’interprétation
néoplatonicienne de Galien et d’Hippocrate à la Renaissance," at the international conference La
rhétorique médicale à travers les siècles (October
10, 2008, National Academy of Medicine,
Paris).
--- "Matter and Life in the Natural Philosophy of Daniel Sennert," at Brown Bag Lecture (October 23, 2008, CHF,
--- "Quintessence and World-Spirit
in Quercetanus’s Paracelsian
Natural Philosophy,"
at Renaissance Society of America (March 20, 2009,
--- "Il calore cosmico in Telesio fra il De generatione animalium
di Aristotele e il De carnibus di Ippocrate," at the international conference Thylesius
Redivivus (May 6-7, Cosenza).
--- "Medicine
and Astrology in Antoine Mizauld’s Conversation
between Urania and Asclepius,"
at Renaissance Society of America (April 8, 2010, Venice). ![]()
---
(with Clare Felton), "Astrology, Talismans
and Medicine in Jacques Gaffarel’s Curiositez Inouyes (1629)," at the annual meeting of HSS (November,
2011,
Reviews
--- "Société Marsile Ficin, Accademia :
revue de la société Marsile Ficin," Archives internationales
d’histoire des sciences, 51 (2001), pp. 173-174.
--- "Ian Maclean, Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of Learned
Medicine (
--- "Didier Kahn, Alchimie et paracelsisme en France
(1567-1625) (Genève: Droz, 2007)," Isis,
99 (2008), pp. 612-613.
--- "Sylvie Taussig (ed.), Gassendi et la
modernité (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008)," Bruniana & Campanelliana,
15 (2009), pp. 230-231. ![]()
| Chemical Heritage Foundation |
| Pratique
et pensée médicales à la Renaissance |
| Justus Lipsius and Natural Philosophy |
| Cornelius Gemma: Medicine, Cosmology and Natural Philosophy |
| International Conference on the History of Alchemy (Philadelphia) |
| Centre for History of Science, University of Ghent |
| Chimie
et mécanisme au tournant XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle |
| Birkbeck Ficino Conference |
| Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL |