Insensible Perspiration
Santorio’s "De statica medicina" (1614) reflected long-standing views on perspiration closely aligned to digestion, and health as balance of humours
Giordano Bruno’s Minima
How is Bruno’s mathematics is related to that of his contemporaries? To explore this topic, I consider two different conceptions
Bodies in Balance
The paper I presented to the Santorio International Conference was mainly concerned with these two issues: what role did Santorio’s
Honourable Mentions
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Santorio Fellows 2021
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Santorio Fellows 2019
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text="Santorio Fellows 2019" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23004869"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_single_image image="7424" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_column_text] Ivana Bičak [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] University of Durham [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_single_image image="7422" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_column_text] Nuno Castel-Branco [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Johns
Latitudes of the Body
The Summer School will explore theories, applications, problems, and contexts of human-based measurements across the late medieval and early modern
The Kiln, The Alembic, and the Clockwork
The summer school explores how the representation of the body and its functions changed from antiquity to the early modern period
Measuring Health and the Body
This seminar will present how and why the pre-modern body was measured and explore how new methods of measuring, quantifying,
Extreme Bodies
This joint panel between the University of Vienna and the CSMBR, presents some of these entanglements between weight, norm and