In this lecture, Monica Green explores how pathogen palaeogenetics, through ancient microbial genomes, is transforming our understanding of the evolution
How were miners affected by their work? This article traces the illnesses they faced, the vocabulary they created to describe
The talk explores how George Eberhard Rumphius’s natural history and medicinal botany in the Dutch colonial archipelago were shaped by
The lecture examines how Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro redefined early modern diagnosis by theorising the transformation and propagation of diseases
Paul Sandro Heidelbach explores a 1688 satire that linked Kenelm Digby’s "sympathetic powder" to a supposed method for finding longitude
This talk focuses on Rupescissa's pharmacological work, "De famulatu philosophie" (1351-1352) and repositions his thought in the context of his
How were miners affected by their work? This article traces the illnesses they faced, the vocabulary they created to describe
Paul Sandro Heidelbach explores a 1688 satire that linked Kenelm Digby’s "sympathetic powder" to a supposed method for finding longitude
In this article Sabrina Engert examines how Andreas Vesalius’s "De humani corporis fabrica" and "Epitome" were re-edited, adapted, and transformed
Drawing on Coptic medical writings and related historical sources, this article examines honey’s evolving roles in treatment and ritual from
Through an analysis of trade manuals, personal notebooks (zibaldoni), and family records, Massimo Sbarbaro illustrates how merchants were not only
This article traces how seventeenth-century Naples became a crucible for alchemical debate over the elusive language of the universal cure.
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