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        • The Golden Wine or the Fifth Essence
        • Sickness and Healing in Byzantium
      • Past Lectures
    • Conferences and Webinars
      • Early Modern Galenic Pharmacology
      • Measuring Health and the Body
      • Dante and the Sciences of the Human
      • Extreme Bodies
      • Expanding the Limits of Academic Medicine
    • Santorio Lectures
      • The Actualisation of the Ideal Human in the Works of Roger Bacon
      • “Virtus Formativa” in Albert the Great’s Embryology
      • Literature and Medical Thought in 13th-Century Italy
      • Georg J. Kamel: Natural Knowledge in Transit
    • VivaMente Conferences
      • 2023 – Fertility, Medicine and the Body
      • 2022 – From Automata to Transhumans
      • 2020 – Medicine in the Philosophy of Descartes
    • Summer Schools
      • 2023 – Intensity and the Grades of Nature
      • 2021 – Latitudes of the Body
      • 2019 – The Kiln, The Alembic, and the Clockwork
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      • The Universe on Paper
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