Other publications by the team members:
(1) A special issue of Perspectives on Science 20 (2) 2012
Francis Bacon and the Medicine of the Mind: Late Renaissance Contexts
Edited by Sorana Corneanu, Guido Giglioni, and Dana Jalobeanu
The articles published in this volume intend to bring to the attention of scholarly community new, challenging and contextual perspectives bearing on the well known Baconian theory of the idols of the mind. They address some of the questions and problems raised by Francis Bacon’s theory in the wider context of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century attempts to educate, cultivate and ‘medicine’ the mind.
Introduction
Introduction
![]() Sorana Corneanu, Guido Giglioni, Dana Jalobeanu Perspectives on Science Summer 2012, Vol. 20, No. 2: 135–138.
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Articles
Francis Bacon, Natural Philosophy, and the Cultivation of the Mind
![]() Perspectives on Science Summer 2012, Vol. 20, No. 2: 139–158.
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Philosophy According to Tacitus: Francis Bacon and the Inquiry into the Limits of Human Self-Delusion
![]() Perspectives on Science Summer 2012, Vol. 20, No. 2: 159–182.
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Idols of the Imagination: Francis Bacon on the Imagination and the Medicine of the Mind
![]() Perspectives on Science Summer 2012, Vol. 20, No. 2: 183–206.
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Idolatry, Natural History, and Spiritual Medicine: Francis Bacon and the Neo-Stoic Protestantism of the late Sixteenth Century
![]() Perspectives on Science Summer 2012, Vol. 20, No. 2: 207–226.
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On Fish: Natural History as Spiritual materia medica: Calvinist Pastoralism in Pierre Viret’s Instruction Chrestienne (1564)
![]() Perspectives on Science Summer 2012, Vol. 20, No. 2: 227–245.
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Natural Histories of Religion: A (Baconian) “Science”?
![]() Perspectives on Science Summer 2012, Vol. 20, No. 2: 246–267.
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(2) A special issue of Early Science and Medicine 17 (1-2) 2012
“Francis Bacon and the transformation of early modern natural history” (edited by Sorana Corneanu, Guido Giglioni, Dana Jalobeanu)
It includes contributions by: Laura Georgescu, Dana Jalobeanu, Doina-Cristina Rusu, Mădălina Giurgea.
Content
Introduction: The Place of Natural History in Francis Bacon’s Philosophy, pp. 1-10(10)
Authors: Corneanu, Sorana; Giglioni, Guido; Jalobeanu, Dana,
Bacon’s Notion of Natural History
Francis Bacon and the Classification of Natural History, pp. 11-31(21)
Author: Anstey, Peter
Francis Bacon’s Natural History and Civil History: A Comparative Survey, pp. 32-61(30)
Author: Manzo, Silvia
Historia and Materia: The Philosophical Implications of Francis Bacon’s Natural History, pp. 62-86(25)
Author: Giglioni, Guido
Res, veluti per Machinas, Conficiatur: Natural History and the ‘Mechanical’ Reform of Natural Philosophy, pp. 87-111(25)
Author: Stewart, Ian G.
Baconian Histories of Bodies, Airs and Spirits
Francis Bacon: Constructing Natural Histories of the Invisible, pp. 112-133(22)
Author: Rusu, Doina-Cristina
The History of Life and Death A ‘Spiritual’ History from Invisible Matter to Prolongation of Life, pp. 134-157(24)
Author: Gemelli, Benedino
Redefining the Role of Experiment in Bacon’s Natural History: How Baconian was Descartes before Emerging from His Cocoon?, pp. 158-180(23)
Authors: Georgescu, Laura; Giurgea, Mădălina
The Betterment of Human Condition and the Natural Histories of the Passions
Natural Knowledge as a Propaedeutic to Self-Betterment Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Natural History, pp. 181-196(16)
Author: Lancaster, James A.T.
Francis Bacon’s Natural History and the Senecan Natural Histories of Early Modern Europe, pp. 197-229(33)
Author: Jalobeanu, Dana
Aπαθεια and Προπαθειαι in Early Modern Discussions of the Passions: Stoicism, Christianity and Natural History, pp. 230-253(24)
Author: Kraye, Jill
John Abernethy: Calvinist Natural Histories of the Soul in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 254-271(18)
Author: Andersson, Daniel C.
(3) Mihnea Dobre. “Rohault’s Traité de physique and its Newtonian reception” in ROCA-ROSELL, A. (ed.) (2012). The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the ESHS, Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010. Barcelona: SCHCT-IEC. ISBN: 978-84-9965-108-8, pp. 389-394.
(4) Mihnea Dobre. “Early Cartesianism and the Journal des Sçavans, 1665-1671”, Studium, vol. 4, no. 4 (2011): 228-240.