Antonio Clericuzio

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Antonio Clericuzio (born October 2, 1958 ) is an Italian historian of science specializing in chemistry, alchemy and medicine of the early modern period.

Clericuzio received his Laureate in Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1983 and was then at the Istituto Italiani per gli Studi Filosofici and the Istituto Italiani per gli Studi Storici in Naples and from 1986 as a Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute . In 1990/91 he was at University College London and from 1992 to 2001 he conducted research at the Università degli Studi di Cassino . From 2001 to 2012 he was a professor there, then he moved to the Università Roma III . He deals with chemistry and medicine from the 15th to 17th centuries, specifically Italy and England and Robert Boyle , Johan Baptista van Helmont and Paracelsus .

In 2012 he was visiting professor at the Center d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours .

He is co-editor of the magazine Ambix (from 2013), of Nuncius, Intellectual History Review and the Newton Project and, with S. Ricci, editor of the supplements to Enciclopedia Treccani.

Fonts

  • Elements, principles and corpuscles: a study of atomism and chemistry in the seventeenth century, Dordrecht: Kluwer 2000
  • Editor with Piyo Rattansi: Alchemy and chemistry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Colloquium, held at the Warburg Institute on 26th and 27th July 1989, Dordrecht: Kluwer 1994
  • Editor with Lawrence M. Principe: The Accademia del Cimento and Its European Context, Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2009
  • Editor with Michael Hunter, Lawrence M. Principe : The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, London: Pickering & Chatto, 6 volumes, 2001
  • Contributions in Claus Priesner , Karin Figala : Alchemy. Lexicon of a Hermetic Science, Beck 1998
  • Alchemical theories of matter, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Volume 28, 1997, pp. 369-375.
  • From Van Helmont to Boyle: a study of the transmission of Helmontian chemical and medical theories in seventeenth-century England, British Journal for the History of Science 26 (1993), pp. 303-334
  • A redefinition of Boyle's chemistry and corpuscular philosophy, Annals of Science 47 (1990), pp. 561-589.

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SURNAME Clericuzio, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian chemical historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1958