Publications – The History and Philosophy of Fermentation

Schmechel, Carmen (2023). “Fermentation as ‘heat-rarefaction’ and animal spirits in Descartes: Muscle movement and generation.” In: F. Baldassarri (ed.), Descartes and Medicine, Brepols Press, DOI: 10.1484/M.DESCARTES-EB.5.132889. Download PDF
Schmechel, Carmen (2023). (Book review) „Galen and the Early Moderns. By Matteo Favaretti and Emanuela Scribano.“ Centaurus DOI: 10.1484/J.CNT.5.135399 Download PDF
Schmechel, Carmen (2023). "Cesalpino's Theory of Disease.“ In: F. Baldassarri and C. Martin (eds.), Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the 16th Century, Bloomsbury Academic, DOI: 10.5040/9781350325173. Download PDF
Schmechel, Carmen (2022). “Descartes on Fermentation in Digestion: Iatromechanism, Analogy and Teleology.” The British Journal for the History of Science 55, no. 1 (2022): 101–16. doi:10.1017/S0007087421000819. Download PDF