Hiro Hirai Research Fellow Columbia University Commons username: @hirohirai Twitter handle: animamundi001 ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4411-0175 Facebook URL: hiro.hirai?ref=bookmarks radboud.academia.edu/HiroHirai Following 1 members View ProfileActivitySites 1CORE deposits 16Following 1Followers 4Groups 1DiscussionsDocs Academic InterestsHistory of medicineHistory of philosophyHistory of scienceIntellectual historyRenaissance studies Commons GroupsHCRenaissance Science and Medicine Recent Commons Activity joined the group Renaissance Science and Medic… deposited “Logoi Spermatikoi and the … deposited “Earth’s Soul and Spontan… deposited “Concepts of Seeds and Natu… deposited “Anatomizing the Sceptical … Work Shared in COREArticles“Logoi Spermatikoi and the Concept of Seeds in the Mineralogy and Cosmogony of Paracelsus,” Revue d’histoire des sciences 61 (2008), I-XXI.“Earth’s Soul and Spontaneous Generation: Fortunio Liceti’s Criticism against Ficino’s Ideas on the Origin of Life” in: Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and His Influence, ed. Stephen Clucas et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 273-299.“Concepts of Seeds and Nature in the Work of Marsilio Ficino,” in: Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy, ed. Michael J. B. Allen & Valery Rees (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 257-284.“Anatomizing the Sceptical Chymist: Robert Boyle and the Secret of his Early Sources on the Growth of Metals,” Early Science and Medicine 10 (2005), 453-477.“The World-Spirit and Quintessence in the Chymical Philosophy of Joseph Du Chesne,” in: Chymia: Science and Nature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1450-1750), ed. Miguel Lopez-Perez (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010), 247-261.“Athanasius Kircher’s Chymical Interpretation of the Creation and Spontaneous Generation,” in: Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry, ed. Lawrence M. Principe (New York: Science History Publications, 2007), 77-87.“Living Atoms, Hylomorphism and Spontaneous Generation in Daniel Sennert” in: Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy, ed. Gideon Manning (Boston-Leiden: Brill, 2012), 77-98.“Formative Power, Soul and Intellect in Nicolò Leoniceno between the Arabo-Latin Tradition and the Renaissance of the Greek Commentators” in: Psychology and the Other Disciplines: A Case of Cross-Disciplinary Interaction (1250-1750), ed. Paul Bakker et al. (Boston-Leiden: Brill, 2012), 297-324.(with Rienk Vermij) Special Issue “The Marginalization of Astrology: Introduction,” Early Science and Medicine 22 (2017), 404-409.“The New Astral Medicine,” in: A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance, ed. Brendan Dooley (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 267-286.“Images, Talismans and Medicine in Gaffarel” in: Jacques Gaffarel between Magic and Science (Rome: Serra, 2014), 73-84.“Mysteries of Living Corpuscles: Atomism and the Origin of Life in Sennert, Gassendi and Kircher,” in: Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy, ed. Peter Distelzweig et al. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2016), 255-269.“Bodies and Their Internal Powers: Natural Philosophy, Medicine and Alchemy,” in: The Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy, ed. Henrik Lagerlund et al. (London: Routledge, 2017), 394-410.“Imagination, Maternal Desire and Embryology in Thomas Fienus,” in: Professors, Physicians and Practioners in the History of Medicine: Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi (Dordrecht: Springer, 2017), 211-225.“Human and Animal Generation in Renaissance Medical Debates,” in: Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine, ed. Roberto Lo Presti et al. (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2017), 89-98.“Telesio, Aristotle and Hippocrates on Cosmic Heat,” in: Bernardino Telesio and the Natural Sciences in the Renaissance, ed. Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 51-65. Blog Posts
