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Here is all about the new publication and the upcoming events.

 

 

 

2012

 

Conference

“Celestial Influences and Cosmic Bonds in Renaissance Embryology after Pico”

Paris, France, June 21-23, 2012

 

Invited Lecturer

1-14 July 2012, Rikkyo University, Tokyo

 

Conference

“Animal and Human Generation and Intellect in Renaissance Medical Debates”

27-28 September 2012, Berlin

 

 

 

 

2011

 

Conference

“Alchemy and Medicine in Joseph Du Chesne’s De priscorum materia (1603)”

Cambridge, UK, 22-24 September 2011

 

Conference

 Imagination, Maternal Desire and Signature in the Embryology of Thomas Fienus (1608)

Tours, France, 2 December 2011

 

Conference

Averroes on Formative Power: Galen, Avicenna and Avempace”

Nijmegen, Netherlands, 17-18 June 2011

 

Article Writing

"Medicine and Astrology in the Renaissance: Some Aspects of Platonic Astral Medicine"

in Germana Ernst (ed.), Astrologia nel Rinascimento (Rome: Carroci, forthcoming in 2012).

 

Book

with Jan Papy (ed.), Justus Lipsius and Natural Philosophy (Brussels: Royal Academy of Belgium, 2011).

 

Book

Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the Soul (Boston-Leiden: Brill, 2011).

 

Article

"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. (Prague: Artefactum, 2011), pp. 381-391.

 

Article

"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, 2011), pp. 273-299.

 

Article

"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 (Brussels: Royal Academy of Belgium, 2011), pp. 63-79.

 

 

 

 

2010

 

Book

Miguel Lopez-Perez et al. (eds.)

Chymia: Science and Nature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1450-1750)

Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

 

Article

“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),

Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars, 2010, pp. 247-261.

 

Confernece

“Astrology, Talismans and Medicine in Jacques Gaffarel’s Curiositez Inouyes (1629)”

Montreal, 5 November 2010.

 

Conference

“Cosmic Heat in Medicine and Astrology: The case of Antoine Mizauld’s Dialogue between Urania and Asclepius

Venice, 7-10 April 2010.

 

 

 

 

2009

 

International Conference: Telesio

"Aristotele, Ipocrate e il calore cosmico in Telesio"

(Cosenza, Italy, May 6-7, 2009)

Programme

 

New book! Pratique et pensée médicales ŕ la Renaissance (Paris: De Boccard, 2009).

 

New book! La philosophie naturelle de Robert Boyle (Paris: Vrin, 2009).

 

New article: “Lipsius on the World-Soul”. Now available!

 

 

 

 

2008

 

Workshop: Alchemy & Gender

"Génération, allégorie sexuelle et concept de semence chez Paracelse"

(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, February 22, 2008)

 

 

Seminar: Medical Commentaries in the Renaissance

"Jean Fernel commentateur de Galien ŕ propos de l’immortalité de l’âme"

(Salle Jeanne Vieillard, IRHT, Paris, March 28, 2008)

 

 

Seminar: Science and Technique : Belgian History !

"Cornelius Gemma médecin astrologue"

(Louvain-la-Neuve, April 25, 2008)

 

 

International Conference: Hylomorphism

“Atomism, Hylomorphism and Biology in Daniel Sennert”

(Caltech, Pasadena, Los Angeles, May 23-24, 2008)

 

 

International Conference: Cosmographia

“Kircher’s Cosmography and Emblematic Reading of Divine Providence”

(Ghent, Belgium, May 28-30, 2008)

 

 

International Conference: Chymia

“The Word of God and Universal Medicine in the Chemical Philosophy of Oswald Croll”

(El Escorial, Madrid, Spain, September 7-12, 2008)

 

 

International Conference: Medical Rhetoric over the Centuries

"Interprétation néoplatonicienne de Galien et d’Hippocrates ŕ la Renaissance"

(National Academy of Medicine, Paris, October 9-10, 2008)

 

 

Brown Bag Lecture

"Matter and Life in the Natural Philosophy of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)"

(CHF, Philadelphia, October 21, 2008)

 

 

Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America: Special Session Alchemy

"Quintessence and World-Spirit in Quercetanus's Paraclesian Natural Philosophy"

(Los Angeles, March 20, 2009)