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Human Placenta in Premodern Europe-a Cultural and Pharmaceutical Agent. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Abstract This paper was prompted by some striking similarities between both the ritual and the medical use of placenta in Ming China and in premodern Europe. Contrary to most accounts, which focus either on the rise of chemiatric medicine or on the growing interest in “exotic” substances, the seventeenth century in Europe also reveals a revived ...
Wahrig B.
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The science of talismans today

History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3-4, April 2023., 2023
Abstract The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance.
Benjamin Anderson
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A visual testament by Luca Riva, a deaf and mute pupil of the Procaccini

Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 222-251, April 2022., 2022
Abstract The paper investigates the visual testament by Luca Riva, a mute and deaf artist who studied in Milan under Camillo Procaccini. Dated 9 September 1624, the document consists of twelve folios bound together in a small volume. On the sheets, ten brown‐ink drawings illustrate the beneficiaries of Riva’s testament, identifying the inheritance ...
Angelo Lo Conte
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Truth as Conformation in Herbert of Cherbury

New Blackfriars, Volume 102, Issue 1102, Page 857-872, November 2021., 2021
Abstract Thomas Aquinas, like many other, but by no means all medieval theologians and philosophers, espoused a theory of truth by identity. Truth exists primarily in the mind, but insofar as it realises the truth of things, truth exists in things also.
Catherine Pickstock
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Una disputa sobre la amistad: Ficino y Pico

Medievalia, 2016
Una disputa sobre la amistad: Ficino y Pico.
Teresa Rodríguez
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The Solitary Mind in the Anatomy of Melancholy

, 2023
Critical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 5-24, July 2023.
Angus Gowland
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East Meets West: The New Gnoseology in Giordano Bruno and Wang Yangming

Religions, 2022
This study examines the various explanations of the deliberative humanity, regarding a new gnoseology in the intellectual contexts of Giordano Bruno and Wang Yangming during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Zheng Wang
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Medicina y política en Francesco Patrizi: el cuerpo de La Ciudad Feliz

Asclepio: Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 2015
La ciudad feliz de Francesco Patrizi ha sido casi siempre considerada como una obra perteneciente a la literatura utópica del siglo XVI o como una imagen filosófica de la Venecia real.
Susana Gómez López
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Mano y rostro. La filosofía de la expresión en Leonardo da Vinci y Marsilio Ficino

Patristica et Mediaevalia, 2019
El presente artículo se centra en Marsilio Ficino y Leonardo da Vinci. Ambos autores describen la producción humana de artefactos como principios transformadores que afectan el mundo a partir de un punto de vista tanto técnico como estético.
Gianluca Cuozzo
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Marsilio Ficino's Allegorical Reading of Optical Phenomena

Teorie vědy, 2020
As a Platonist, Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) was deeply interested in light  and its qualities. As a matter of fact, the metaphysics of light is so fundamental for him that it appears, treated more or less systematically, almost in all of his works. As a
Martin Žemla
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