Inspiring innovation from tradition

  •  L’édition aldine du Traité de matière médicale de Dioscoride - Sources manuscrites, méthode d’édition, influence, 379 p. Accepted for publication by Leo S. Olschki, Firenze (I).
  • PLANT-Renaissance Botanical Illustration. Web site available in open access.
  • Indigenous vs. Foreign: Early-Modern Materia Medica in Comparative Perspective, Guest Editor: Alain Touwaide, Special Issue of Early Science and Medicine 14 (2009), pp. 677-788. Includes 2 texts by Alain Touwaide: (pp. 677-679) "Introduction"; (pp. 765-788) "Foreign vs. Local: New Horizons, and Ancient Dilemmas and Strategies?". Other texts are by Carla Nappi (CDN), Alisha Rankin (USA), and Elly Truit (USA).
  • "Pharmacology, The Renaissance", in Manfred Lanfester (ed.), Brill’s New Pauly. Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, Supplement, vol. 4, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009, cols. 357-366.
  • "Botany and Humanism in the Renaissance: Background, Interaction, Contradictions", in Therese O’Malley & Amy Meyers (eds.), The Art and History of Botanical Painting and Natural History Treatises. Washington, DC: The National Gallery or Art, 2008, pp. 33-61, with 20 illustrations.
  • "Leoniceno, Niccolò" and "Pellicier, Guillaume", in Noretta Koertge (ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2007, vol. 4, pp. 264-267, and vol. 6, pp. 67-69.
  • "Loquantur ipsi ut velint ... dumtaxat non ignorent quis serpens sit tiro - Leoniceno’s contribution to the construction of Renaissance botanical lexicon", in Medical Latin from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Times. European Science Foundation. Proceedings of the Symposium held in Brussels, September 1999. Leuven: Peeters-Orientaliste, 2000, pp. 151-173.
  • "The permanence of Classical Greek Medicine in the Ottoman Empire. The case of Dioscorides’ Materia medica", in Erwin Lucius, Alif Mat, Öztan Öncel & Bülent Özaltay (eds.), Hommage au Professeur Arslan Terzioglu. Istanbul: Isis Editions, 1999, pp. 177-200.
  • "Du manuscrit à l’imprimé: l’illustration du Traité de matière médicale de Dioscoride". In Actes du Congrès International d’Histoire de la Médecine, Anvers, 1990. Brussels: Société d’Histoire de la Médecine, 1991, pp. 739-745.
  • Le Traité de matière médicale de Dioscoride à la Renaissance. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses de l’Université, 1984, 40 p., with 16 black and white illustrations.

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