{"title":"Medicina sotto il vulcano. Corpi e salute a Napoli in età moderna , by Maria Conforti","authors":"E. Chavarria","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03802001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03802001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"53 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72369550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Search for the Tang Royal Domain (Wangji 王畿)","authors":"Chia-Yun Wu","doi":"10.1163/18253911-bja10059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10059","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay discusses how the traditional Chinese geographical concept Nine Domains (Jiufu 九服) was applied in Yixing’s 一行 (683–727) large-scale gnomonic survey of the Tang dynasty. Yixing’s surveying method is reconstructed by comparing textual records with schematic delineations. This comparison shows that the centralized and symmetrical pattern in the arrangement of survey sites conforms to the visual and schematic delineations of the concept of Nine Domains. The design was meant to show that the Earth was in harmony with heavenly patterns, thus confirming Emperor Xuanzong of Tang’s 唐玄宗 mandate of heaven to govern. In this essay, I lay out Yixing’s empirical scientific work and symbolic cultural activity regarding calendrical reform to re-establish the legitimacy of the Tang dynasty regime. The case demonstrates an understanding of how Chinese astronomers interrelated Heaven and Earth and indicates an ongoing tension in the history of science about concept-practice relations.","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90975615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Under the Surface","authors":"Monica Azzolini","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03802005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03802005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136106226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Humours and the Dyes","authors":"Lucia Raggetti","doi":"10.1163/18253911-bja10057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10057","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This contribution presents the edition and translation of a new manuscript witness to the Arabic tradition of Galenic summaries On urine (MS Collegesville, Minnesota HMML olm 00041). Uroscopy appears to be a complementary diagnostic element in ancient medicine, which gained increasing popularity in later centuries, as attested by the rich traditions in Greek and Arabic. The summary, as attested in this manuscript witness, compares the four bodily humours to dyes, creating a concrete and tangible frame for the study and memorization of this diagnostic branch. This text, moreover, stresses the performative dimension of uroscopy, particularly in the form of instructions for physicians on how to recognize devious fake samples offered by obnoxious people seeking to test the physician in order to undermine his authority and credibility.","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87577145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban Histories of Science: Making Knowledge in the City, 1820–1940 , by Oliver Hochadel and Agustí Nieto-Galan, eds.","authors":"Déborah Dubald","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03802007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03802007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"126 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86583706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Description or Design","authors":"Hannah Kaemmer","doi":"10.1163/18253911-bja10064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10064","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Over the course of the seventeenth century, two representations of Stonehenge—one published in William Camden’s Britannia (1600) and the other in Inigo Jones’s Stone-heng Restored (1655)—were invoked repeatedly in an intensifying debate over the monument’s origins. This debate engaged both the virtuosi community of the Royal Society and members of the closely related, fledgling world of English architectural discourse, and the two representations became the common ground for both conversation and contestation. This paper traces the entangled afterlives of these two images, and argues that their reproduction and reinterpretation by members of natural history, antiquarian, and architectural communities created both discord and new, collective knowledge. Drawing on recent work exploring how images produced for divergent purposes and audiences were integrated into natural philosophical study, I explore how, through their reproduction, alteration, and recontextualization, these images functioned as tools of both division and mediation, and created space for debate and new investigation.","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79350191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“To Draw a Body, Human or Beast, One Must Study Anatomy”","authors":"Amandine Victoria Didouan","doi":"10.1163/18253911-bja10058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10058","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Contributing to the merging fields of art history, visual culture, and history of science, this article brings forward Carlo Ruini’s (1530–1598) equine anatomical treatise Dell’Anotomia et dell’Infermità del Cavallo (1598). The introduction of Ruini’s epistemic imagery, specifically a flayed horse depicted in what has been termed the “foreshortened-frontalized-equestrian” pose, offers a new perspective to existing art historical scholarship, hypothesising on the role of anatomy in depictive choices within early modern equestrian portraiture. The anatomical poses and postures originally found in Dell’Anotomia reappear in portraits of equine subjects by Rubens and his followers thus challenging currently held academic theories concerning their source of inspiration. The application of elements from Ruini’s Dell’Anotomia within a seventeenth-century practical guide for artists further underscores anatomy’s influence on equestrian portraiture, thus evidencing a deliberate response to the relationship between science, early modern equestrian culture, and art.","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83778345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Early-Fourteenth-Century English Astrolabe in Milan and Contemporary Anglo-Italian Politics , by John Davis","authors":"G. Strano","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03802004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03802004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90852183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spaces of Enlightenment Science , by Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart, eds.","authors":"M. Beretta","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03802006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03802006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81263080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renaissance Invention. Stradanus’s Nova Reperta , by Lia Markey, ed.","authors":"Rebekah Higgitt","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03802002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03802002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86609912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}