Thank you CSMBR for this special event and the unique experience!

Francesco Paolo de Ceglia (ed), " The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine" Brill Available at: brill.com/display/title/…

So honoured to be included in this line up, and very much looking forward to visiting Bologna once again…

Very interesting blog entry by David Mesquita about the cosmological significance of body fluids

CSMBR CHRONICLES Check the latest news on Academia: conferences, publications and events from the centre's scholars and from our partner institutions. csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/csmbr-chronicl…

NOW AVAILABLE WITH PSMEMM Amalia Cerrito, "Albert the Great (c. 1193–1280) and the Configuration of the Embryo. Virtus Formativa" link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Great’s notion of "virtus formativa". #csmbr #psmemm

FORMA FLUENS: HISTORIES OF THE MICROCOSM Santorio Fellow Anna Speyart (Princeton University) unveils the secrets of refrigerating food and cold drinking in Renaissance Florence. READ IT AND SHARE IT HERE: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/blog/forma-flu… #csmbr #formafluens

ARISTOTELICA Early Modern Transformation and Adaptation of the Aristotelian Scientific Vocabulary We thought our community could be interested in this webinar series.

FORMA FLUENS - HISTORIES OF THE MICROCOSM Read another great contribution in our blog as art historian Wenyj Quian delves into early modern geosciences and the use of hardstone inlays as artisanal geology. READ IT HERE: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/blog/forma-flu… #csmbr #formafluens

History of Anatomy and Surgery 30: Anatomical Models, England 1412 from John of Anderne, "De Arte Physicali seu de Cyrurgia", MS 53 vault, (recto and verso), Cushing-Withey Library, Yale University. #csmbr #medicalhistory #anatomy

Our project is now online on X and bluesky 🎉

This 1559 frontispiece shows the author Colombo. He dedicated the final chapter of this work to the study of diseased organs, establishing the beginnings of morbid anatomy, or the pathology of diseased bodies Check out the original in our exhibition rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/after…

Medical Technology Series 14: Lavoisier Experiments on Human Respiration, ca. 1790 Drawing by Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier, Closed Stores, Wellcome Collection 575732i, Wellcome Library, London. #csmbr #medicalhistory #lavoisier #respiration

If you are interested in cemeteries and funeral culture: the lovley Klara Valentina Fritz wrote a blog article about female “grief” figures

Healthy Practices and Environments 13: Spring Baths, Nuremberg c. 1530 Coloured glass attributed to Augustin Hirschvogel from a cycle depicting the months, Inventory no. Glasgem.6, Staatsblbliotheck Bamberg, Germany. #CSMBR #Medicalhistory #Bathing

Natural History and Curiosities 2: Developmental Stages of Chicken Embryo, 1672 original illustration by Marcello Malpighi, for Table IV of "Dissertatio epistolica de formatione pulli in ovo" (1673), Reference Number: MS/103/2, The Royal Society, London. #CSMBR #Medicalhistory

New dyes created one of the most important visual experiences of the Renaissance, yet the story has been sidelined. 'A Revolution in Colour' ed. by Cambridge History’s Ulinka Rublack, w/ Giorgio Riello & Maria Hayward, aims to recolour an entire age. hist.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge…

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Medical Humanism 10: A Medical Lecture, Italy 1495 Frontispiece of Albert the Great’s "Liber aggregationis", translated into Italian (Venice 1495), Palatinus E.6.4.56, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence. #CSMBR #Medicalhistory #AlberttheGreat

Medical Alchemy Series 8: Making the Elixir, 1624 from Donato D'Eremita, "Dell'Elixir vitae...libri Quattro" (Secondino Roncagliolo, Naples 1624), cc. 183r, 193r, 103, Closed stores EPB/D/2069/1, Welcome Library, London. #CSMBR #medicalalchemy #elixir