Galen on Nutrition and Diet in the Roman Empire
Galen is one of the best sources on ancient nutrition and diet: he has little interest in luxury fashions, he
Emulating God on Earth
In this talk, Audrey Borowski highlights the continuity between Leibniz’s conception of life and that of an ideal society along
Drinking Plain Water in the Early Modern Period
David Gentilcore explores how uses and consumption of plain water affected medical practice and everyday life.
Cesalpino and Aristotelian Science
This talk explores Cesalpino's "De Plantis", which laid the foundations of scientific systematics and became a milestone in the history of
Analysis and Synthesis in 16th-Century Anatomy
This talk examines several late sixteenth-century anatomical works that adopted either the terms and or methods of analysis and synthesis.
Childbearing in the Early Modern Period
In this lecture, I will discuss the "confit d’en cases" or "confectio infantium", a remedy for breastfed infants with colic,
Action, Resistance and Force
This lecture explores how the various solutions offered to the problem of reaction became closer and closer to the modern
Cardano’s Late Writings
In this lecture Ian Maclean explores Girolamo Cardano's late philosophy, examining his diverse works in mathematics, astrology, and medicine, and
Ptolemaic Theories in Galenic Language
This paper explores al-Farghānī’s "Elements of Astronomy", a pioneering work in theoretical astronomy which widely adopts Galenic language and theories.
Poisons, Antidotes and Emergent Properties
This lecture will analyse the various types of causation that were involved in the therapeutic use of antidotes