Elisabeth MOREAU
SOCIAMM Research Center – Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Societies
Elisabeth Moreau is an FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow at ULB Department of History, and previously served as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, Princeton University, and Science History Institute.
Her project, From the Alembic to the Stomach: Nutrition and Pharmacology in Early Modern Medicine, is centered on the medical and alchemical conceptions of metabolism between 1550 and 1650 in Europe.
Previous to this project, her doctoral dissertation (ULB – Radboud Universiteit, 2018) was focused on the emergence of atomistic and corpuscular theories in late Renaissance Galenic medicine.
Research Interests
- History and Philosophy of Science
- Early Modern Period (16th–17th centuries)
- Medicine, Alchemy and Natural Philosophy
Recent Publications
- Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism. Early Science and Medicine 28 (2023): 526-552. DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20230085
- Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593). Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century, ed. Fabrizio Baldassarri & Craig Martin. New-York: Bloomsbury, 2023, 209-223. DOI: 10.5040/9781350325173
- Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology. Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance, ed. Christoph Lüthy & Elena Nicoli. Leiden: Brill, 2022, 56-86. DOI: 10.1163/9789004528925_004
- Combining Atomism with Galenic Medicine: The Physiological Theory of Isaac Beeckman (1616-1627). Knowledge and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic: Isaac Beeckman in Context, ed. Klaas van Berkel, Albert Clement, and Arjan van Dixhoorn. Amsterdam University Press, 2022, 157-179. DOI: 10.17613/m1rn-8n76
- Atoms, Mixture, and Temperament in Early Modern Medicine: The Alchemical and Mechanical Views of Sennert and Beeckman. Santorio Santori and the Emergence of Quantified Medicine: Corpuscularianism, Technology and Experimentation, ed. Jonathan Barry & Fabrizio Bigotti. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 137-164. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79587-0_5
- Pestilence in Renaissance Platonic Medicine: From Astral Causation to Pharmacology and Therapy. Scientiae in the History of Medicine, ed. Fabrizio Baldassarri & Fabio Zampieri. L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2021, 217-246. DOI: 10.48255/M.9788891320186.10
- Learning the Chymical Compromise: Paracelsian and Galenic Medicine in Marburg Disputations on Chymiatria. Ambix: The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (2021): 1-26. DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2021.1930676
- Vegetal Analogy in Early Modern Medicine: Generation as Plant Cutting in Sennert’s Early Treatises (1611–1619). Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy, ed. Andreas Blank & Fabrizio Baldassarri. Springer, 2021, 221–240. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69709-9_13
- Matter–Form (Hylomorphism) in Early Modern Alchemy. Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, ed. Dana Jalobeanu & Charles T. Wolfe. Springer, 2021. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_480-1
- From Food to Elements and Humors: Digestion in Late Renaissance Galenism. Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism, ed. Giouli Korobili & Roberto Lo Presti. De Gruyter, 2021, 319–338. DOI: 10.1515/9783110690552-016
- Libavius, Andreas. Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, ed. Dana Jalobeanu & Charles T. Wolfe. Springer, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_490-1
- Complexion, Temperament and Four Humor Theory in the Renaissance. Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, ed. Marco Sgarbi. Springer, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_477-1
University Awards
- Marie-Antoinette Van Huele PhD Dissertation Prize, 2018-2019
- Alice & David van Buuren Doctoral Award, 2015-2016
- Suzanne Tassier MA Thesis Prize, 2010-2011
Media
- FNRS News no. 124 · February 2022 – “Méthode scientifique: une longue histoire toujours en cours”
- La Première (RTBF) · Les Éclaireurs · October 2022 – “Le Rien, l'Atome, la Matière”
- Belgica no. 4 · June 2023 – “Les Secrets alchimiques de Charles de Lorraine à la lumière de l'histoire des sciences”
Digital Identifier
Institutional Repository
Contact
Department of History, Arts and ArchaeologyULB — Université libre de Bruxelles50 Avenue F.D. Roosevelt CP 133/011050 Brussels (Belgium)elisabeth.moreau@ulb.be
LAST UPDATE 2 DECEMBER 2024
