Hiro Hirai

Hiro Hirai, Ph.D. (1999) in philosophy and history of science, University of Lille 3, is a Marie Curie Fellow at Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). He has published widely in early modern natural philosophy, medicine and chemistry, including "Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the Soul" (Boston-Leiden: Brill, 2012). He is also Associate Editor of "Early Science and Medicine" (http://esmjournal.com/).

.

Publications

"Le concept de semence dans les théories de la matière à la Renaissance" (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005)

http://amzn.to/uy0tVK

(ed.), "Cornelius Gemma: Cosmology, Medicine and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Louvain" (Rome: Serra, 2008)

http://bit.ly/rpH9vQ

(ed. with Jan Papy), "Justus Lipsius and Natural Philosophy" (Brussels: Royal Academy of Belgium, 2011)

http://bit.ly/n7iCpZ

"Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the Soul" (Boston-Leiden: Brill, 2012)

http://amzn.to/wOBHnS

(ed.), "Jacques Gaffarel Between Magic and Science" (Rome: Serra, 2014)