Publications
Vice-Editor, Early
Science and Medicine
Marie Curie Fellow (Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2010-)
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)
For
more information, see Academia.edu. 
Books
--- Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the Soul (Boston-Leiden: Brill, 2011). See the contents. Available at Amazon!
--- Le concept de semence dans les théories de la matière à la Renaissance : de Marsile Ficin à Pierre Gassendi (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005). See the 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
Edited
Volumes
--- with Jan Papy (ed.), Justus Lipsius and Natural Philosophy (
--- (ed.), Microcosmos: Early
Modern Intellectual History, vol. 1 (
--- (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.
- Miguel A. Granada, Studium, 3 (2010), pp. 47-48.
- Steven Vanden Broecke, Isis, 102
(2011), pp. 558-559. PDF
Articles
2012 (Forthcoming)
--- "Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones in Justus Lipsius’ Physiologia Stoicorum: The World-Soul,
--- "Medicine
and Astrology in the Renaissance: Some Aspects of Platonic Astral Medicine," in Germana Ernst (ed.), Astrologia
e divinazione nel Rinascimento (
--- "Living Atoms, Hylomorphism and Spontaneous Generation in
Daniel Sennert," in Gideon Manning (ed.), Matter and Form in Early Modern Philosophy and Science (
--- "Formative Power, Soul and Intellect in Nicolò
Leoniceno between the Arabo-Latin Tradition and the Renaissance of the Greek
Commentators," in Paul
Bakker (ed.), Psychology and the Other
Disciplines: A Case of Cross-Disciplinary Interaction (1250-1750) (
2011
--- "The Word of God and the Universal Medicine in
the Chymical Philosophy of Oswald Croll [Slovo Boží a univerzální lék v chemické
filosofii Oswalda Crolla],” in Alchemy and Rudolf II [Alchymie a Rudolf II.], ed. Ivo Purs et al. (
--- "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 (
---- "Lipsius on
the World-Soul between Roman Cosmic Theology and Renaissance Prisca Theologia", in Hiro
Hirai and Jan Papy (eds.), Justus Lipsius
and Natural Philosophy (
2010
--- “The World-Spirit and Quintessence in the Chymical
Philosophy of Joseph Du Chesne,” in Miguel Lopez-Perez et al. (eds.), Chymia: Science and Nature in Medieval and
Early Modern Europe (1450-1750) (
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, 2009), 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.
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.
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 (
--- "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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Conference Papers
2012
--- "Animal and Human Generation and
Intellect in Renaissance Medical Debates," to be read at the international
workshop From Beasts to Men: The medical and
philosophical debate on human and animal intelligence and sensibility between
Aristotelianism, Cartesianism and Post-Cartesianism (16th-18th centuries)
(September 27-28, 2012, Berlin).
--- "Celestial Influences and Cosmic
Bonds in Renaissance Embryology after Pico’s Attack on Astrology",
to be read at the international conference Space,
Knots and Bonds (June 21-23, 2012,
2011
--- "Imagination, Maternal Desire and
Signatures in the Embryology of Thomas Fienus (1608)", read at the
international seminar Médicalisation de
la maternité et de santé des femmes (December 2, 2011, Tours, France).
--- "Alchemy and Medicine in Joseph Du
Chesne’s De priscorum materia
(1603)," read at the international
conference Alchemy and Medicine from
Antiquity to the Enlightenment (September 22-24, 2011,
--- "Averroes on Formative Power: Galen, Avicenna and Avempace," read at the international conference Averroes’ Natural Philosophy and Its
European Reception (June 17-18, 2011,
2010
--- "Astrology, Talismans and Medicine in Jacques Gaffarel’s Curiositez
Inouyes (1629)," at the annual meeting of HSS (November 5, 2011,
--- "Medicine and Astrology in Antoine
Mizauld’s Conversation between Urania
and Asclepius," at
Renaissance Society of America (April 8, 2010, Venice).
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, 2009, Cosenza).
--- "Quintessence
and World-Spirit in Quercetanus’s Paracelsian Natural Philosophy," at
Renaissance Society of America (March 20, 2009,
2008
---
"Matter and Life in the Natural Philosophy of Daniel Sennert," at
Brown Bag Lecture (October 23, 2008, CHF,
--- "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).
--- "The Word of
God and Universal Medicine in the Chemical Philosophy of Oswald Croll," at
the international conference Chymia
(September 12, 2008, El
--- "Kircher’s
Geo-Cosmography?," at the international conference Cosmographia
(May 30, 2008,
--- "Atomism, Hylomorphism and
Biology in Daniel Sennert," at the international conference Hylomorphism
(May 23, 2008, Caltech,
--- "Cornelius Gemma médecin astrologue," at the seminar Sciences et techniques: histoires belges! (Avril 25, 2008, Louvain-la-Neuve).
--- "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).
--- "Génération, allégorie sexuelle et
concept de semence chez Paracelse", paper read at the workshop Alchemie und Gendre (February 22, 2008, Berlin).
2007
--- "Lipsius on the World-Soul," at the international
conference Justus Lipsius
and Natural Philosophy (November 30, 2007,
--- "Seneca's Natural Questions in
Justus Lipsius' Physiologia
Stoicorum (1604)," at the international conference Seneca e le scienze (November 14, 2007,
--- "Mechanical
Spirits and Seminal Principles in Van Helmont and Pierre Gassendi," at the
annual meeting of HSS (November 2, 2007,
--- "Lecture néoplatonicienne
d’Hippocrate chez Fernel, Cardan et Gemma," at the international
conference Pratique
et pensée médicales à la Renaissance (July 6, 2007, Tours).
--- "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).
--- "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,
2006
--- "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).
--- "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,
2005
--- "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,
--- (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,
2004
--- "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,
2003
--- "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).
--- " ‘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,
2001
--- "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).
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).
--- "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,
1997
--- "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).
Reviews
--- “Charles Webster, Paracelsus: Medicine, Magic and
--- "Sylvie Taussig (ed.), Gassendi
et la modernité (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008)," Bruniana &
Campanelliana 15 (2009), pp. 230-231.
--- "Didier Kahn, Alchimie et paracelsisme en France (1567-1625) (Genève: Droz,
2007)," Isis 99 (2008), pp.
612-613.
--- "Ian
Maclean, Logic, Signs and Nature in the
Renaissance: The Case of Learned Medicine (
--- "Société Marsile Ficin, Accademia :
revue de la société Marsile Ficin," Archives internationales
d’histoire des sciences 51 (2001), pp. 173-174.