Hiro HIRAI

Publications

Dr Hiro HIRAI

Senior Research 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)

News

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:

- 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 Louvain, Rome, Serra, 2008. See more

--- Médecine et philosophie à la Renaissance : force plastique, origine de la vie et véhicule de l’âme, Paris, forthcoming in 2008.

--- (ed.), Justus Lipsius and Natural Philosophy, Brussels, Royal Academy of Belgium, forthcoming.

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, Leiden, Brill, 2002, pp. 257-284.

--- "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 XVI^e 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 XVII^e 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 XVI^e et XVII^e 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 Louvain, Rome, Serra, 2008, pp. 91-104.

--- "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. 225-247.

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), Dordrecht, Springer, forthcoming in 2009.

--- "Living Atoms, Hylomorphism and Spontaneous Generation in Daniel Sennert", in Mordechai Feingold et al. (eds.), Hylomorphism, forthcoming.

--- "World-Soul, Providence and Eschatology: Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones in Justus Lipsius’s Physiologia Stoicorum," in Francesco Citti and Marco Beretta (eds.), Seneca e le scienze naturali, Firenze, Olschki, forthcoming.

--- "Concept of Seeds in the Mineralogy and Cosmogony of Paracelsus"

--- “The Word of God and the Universal Medicine in Oswald Croll’s Chemical Philosophy,” in Ivo Purs et al. (eds.), Rudolf II and Alchemy, Prague, forthcoming in 2010.

--- “Quintessence and World-Spirit in Quercetanus’s Paracelsian Natural Philosophy,” in Miguel Lopez et al. (eds.), Chymia: Science and Nature in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750), Leiden, Brill, forthcoming.

Thesis

--- Le concept de semence dans les théories de la matière à la Renaissance : de Marsile Ficin à Pierre Gassendi, 18 December 1999, University of Lille 3 (France).

Awarded with "Prize for Young Historians" (2000) by the International Academy of the History of Science (Paris).

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, Zurich).

--- "Le concept de semence de Pierre Gassendi entre les théories de la matière et les sciences de la vie au XVII^e siècle", at the international colloquium Meteria e vita (December 16, 2000, Cassino).

--- "Nouvelles découvertes sur le concept de semence aux XVI^e et XVII^e 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, London).

--- "Ficin, Fernel et Fracastor autour du concept de semence", at the international conference Girolamo Fracastoro: convegno internazionale di studi in occasione del 450^o 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, Birkbeck College, London).

--- (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, Nijmegen Catholic University).

--- "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, Philadelphia).

--- "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, University of Ghent).

--- "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, Washington DC).

--- "Seneca's Natural Questions in Justus Lipsius' Physiologia Stoicorum (1604)", at the international conference Seneca e le scienze (November 14, 2007, Ravenna).

--- "Lipsius on the World-Soul", at the international conference Justus Lipsius and Natural Philosophy (November 30, 2007, Brussels).

--- "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, Los Angeles).

--- "Kircher’s Geo-Cosmography?", at the international conference Cosmographia (May 30, 2008, Ghent).

--- "The Word of God and Universal Medicine in the Chemical Philosophy of Oswald Croll", at the international conference Chymia (September 12, 2008, El Scorial, Spain).

--- "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, Philadelphia).

--- "Quintessence and World-Spirit in Quercetanus’s Paracelsian Natural Philosophy", at Renaissance Society of America (March 20, 2009, Los Angeles).

--- "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)

--- "Justus Lipsius on the Soul’s Flight as Return to the World-Soul", at the international Conference The Soul’s Ascent (September 25-26, 2009, Cyprus)

--- "Le soleil comme le siège de l’âme du monde chez Lipse, Kepler et Kircher", at the international conference Sun/Soleil (October 15-17, 2009, Versailles)

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 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002)", Medical History, 47 (2003), pp. 402-404.

--- "Didier Kahn, Alchimie et paracelsisme en France (1567-1625) (Genève: Droz, 2007)", Isis, 99 (2008), pp. 612-613.