Immortal Bodies

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Nuncius

·         Volume 27, Special Issue: Immortal Bodies, January 2012

• ISSN : 0394-7394
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•  Introduction

  • Authors: Francesco Paolo de Ceglia; Irina Podgorny
  • pp. 235–240 (6)
•  The Science of Santa Claus: Discussions on the Manna of Nicholas of Myra in the Modern Age

  • Author: Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
  • pp. 241–269 (29)
•  God’s Gift? Sacred Relics, Gift Giving, and Luisa de Carvajal’s Preparation of the Holy During the Long Reformation

  • Author: Glyn Redworth
  • pp. 270–288 (19)
•  Changing the Dead to Statues of Stone: The Synthesis of Fossils, Petrifaction, Photography, and the Chemistry of the Gorgonean Arts *

  • Author: Irina Podgorny
  • pp. 289–308 (20)
•  The Embalming Art in the Modern Age: The Mummies of Caroline, Letizia and Joachim-Napoleon Agar as Examples of Funerary Rites in the Napoleonic Empire

  • Author: Silvia Marinozzi
  • pp. 309–329 (21)
•  Nineteenth-Century French Collections of Skulls and the Cult of Bones

  • Author: Nélia Dias
  • pp. 330–347 (18)
•  The Hidden Logistics of Longinos’s Novohispanic Cabinet

  • Authors: María Eugenia Constantino; Antonio Lafuente
  • pp. 348–370 (23)
•  Focusing on the Exception to the Rule for a Time: On the Border Between Life and Death in a Case of Scheintod in 1833

  • Author: Gerlind Rüve
  • pp. 371–392 (22)
•  The Decline of Clinical Dissections and the “Culture of Death” 1

  • Author: Hubert Knoblauch
  • pp. 393–410 (18)
•  Documenta inedita

  • Author: Maria Grazia Grazzini
  • pp. 411–467 (57)
•  Wax Anatomy and the Material Culture of Enlightenment Science

  • Author: Marco Bresadola
  • pp. 469–476 (8)
•  The Last Word on Italian Science?

  • Author: Carl Ipsen
  • pp. 477–488 (12)
•  Matteo Valleriani, Galileo Engineer. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol. 269, Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, 320 pp., ISBN 978-90-481-8644-0.

  • Author: Elio Nenci
  • pp. 489–490 (2)
•  Horst Bredekamp (ed.), Galileo’s O. Vol. I: Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius. A Comparison of the Proof Copy (New York) with Other Paradigmatic Copies, ed. by Irene Brückle and Oliver Hahn; vol. II: Paul Needham, Galileo Makes a Book. The First Edition of Sidereus Nuncius, Venice 1610. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011, 192, 249 pp.; ISBN 978-3-05-005095-9.

  • Author: Stefano Gattei
  • pp. 491–495 (5)
•  Renato G. Mazzolini and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (eds.), Differing Routes to Stem Cell Research: Germany and Italy. Bologna-Berlin: Il Mulino-Duncker & Humblot, 2012, 272 pp., ISBN 978-88-15-23878-8; 978-3-428-13849-4.

  • Author: Claudio Pogliano
  • pp. 496–499 (4)
•  Contents Volume 27 (2012)

  • pp. 501–503 (3)