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Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for History of Art

I primarily work on
Tools for Historians of Science
Aspects of Scientific Practice/Organization
Medicine and Health

About Me
I am interested in early modern science and medicine, and especially in how early modern scientific practitioners communicated their science. How are they using their languages (Latin and vernaculars), when are they actively translating between them, and what does the language mean for the subject they are talking about? My current project focusses on the way in which these scientific practitioners used images/ visualisations of knowledge in their communications. When did they add images? Did their readers understand the images? Did they make a difference between communicating visually to a friend in a letter and to an unknown audience of a printed book?

I have just started to a Max Planck Research Group on "Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions" at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, and together with a small team I will be working on these and other related questions over the next few years.

1. Articulations And Disarticulations: Translation, Medicine, And Knowledge In The Premodern World, Session II

2. Reconstructing The Medical Canon: Seventeenth-Century English Physicians And Their Notebooks

3. The Urge To Gloss: Multilingualism In The Making Of Ṭibb

4. Nature In Rubrics: The Role Of Taxonomies In Translating Arabo-Persian Physiology In Late Imperial China

5. Articulations And Disarticulations: Translation, Medicine, And Knowledge In The Premodern World, Session I

6. Female Authority In Translation: Medieval Catalan Texts On Women’s Health

7. Translation And The Making Of A Scientific Archive: The Case Of The Islamic “Translation Movement”

8. Translating, Printing, And Reading The Art Of Distillation

9. Commentary: Articulations And Disarticulations: Translation, Medicine, And Knowledge In The Premodern World, Session I

10. Commentary: Articulations And Disarticulations: Translation, Medicine, And Knowledge In The Premodern World, Session II

1. Articulations And Disarticulations: Translation, Medicine, And Knowledge In The Premodern World, Session II - 25 Jul, 2019