科学史期刊 Nuncius 由意大利佛罗伦萨伽利略博物馆主办,重点关注科学的物质文化与视觉文化。其第37卷第2期于近日出版,该期为《现代早期知识中的植物》(Plants in Early Modern Knowledge)专刊,目录为:
研究论文
- Fabrizio Baldassarri. The Seed, the Tree, the Fruit, the Juice: Plants in Early Modern Knowledge—An Introduction.
- Fabrizio Baldassarri. A Clockwork Orange: Citrus Fruits in Early Modern Philosophy, Science, and Medicine, 1564–1668.
- Justin Niermeier-Dohoney. “To Multiply Corn Two-Hundred-Fold”: The Alchemical Augmentation of Wheat Seeds in Seventeenth-Century English Husbandry.
- Dana Jalobeanu and Oana Matei. Spiritual Technologies: Cider-Making and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England.
- Christoffer Basse Eriksen. Picturing Seeds of Poppies: Microscopes, Specimens, and Representation in Seventeenth-Century English Botany.
- Pamela Mackenzie. Contested Vision: Comparison and Collaboration in Nehemiah Grew’s Plant Anatomy Illustrations.
- Anthony Turner. The Astrolabe and the Book in 16th Century France.
新刊史料(Documenta inedita)
- Alessandro Ottaviani. A Chapter in the Debate on Chordate Phylogeny: Unpublished Papers by Francesco Todaro on a Sense Organ in the Tunicates.
书评部分所评图书
- La Thériaque. Histoire d’ un remède millénaire, by Véronique Boudon-Millot and Françoise Micheau, eds.
- Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar, by Phebe Jensen
- La biblioteca di Leonardo, by Carlo Vecce, ed.
- Natural desiderio di sapere. Roma barocca fra vecchi e nuovi mondi, by Sabina Brevaglieri
- Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister, by Michelle DiMeo
- Material Lives. Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century, by Serena Dyer
- Strange Blood. The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond, by Boel Berner
- Florentino Ameghino y Hermanos. Empresa Argentina de Paleontología Ilimitada, by Irina Podgorny & Los argentinos vienen de los peces. Ensayo de filogenia nacional, by Irina Podgorny
- Brain and Race. A History of Cerebral Anthropology, by Claudio Pogliano
- La Forma del Tempo (The Shape of Time), by Lavinia Galli