Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
Biographic Data
| ID | 1523572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Roy-Di Piazza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Piazza |
| SIGNATURE | DI PIAZZA V R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5352-7231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin
In February 1744 in Paris, the Swedish physician Abraham Bäck (1713–95), better known as Carl Linnaeus’s best friend, dissected the cadaver of an unidentified sub-Saharan man. In contrast to the widespread exploitation of the enslaved dead in North America, cadavers of dark-skinned Africans remained rare in the anatomical theatres of eighteenth-century Europe. Scarcity not only increased their market value in medical circles interested in skin co…
Desire, Marriage, and Overpopulation
During the eighteenth century, the discovery of sexual reproduction in insect species prompted the demise of spontaneous generation and new developments in natural history, theology, and political economy. The sexual lives of insects prompted debates on whether insects were governed by desire, free will, and even marital tendency. Fuelled by the democratisation of microscopy, early modern entomology took a new turn and breadth: the study of insec…
Enslaved by African angels
This article provides the first extensive study of Emanuel Swedenborg’s (1688–1772) views on Africans and slavery. Although significant scholarship has been devoted to Swedenborg’s influence on the British abolitionist movement in the 1780s-1790s, comparably little has been written on the ideas and context which inspired this influence in the first place. This article explores Swedenborg’s ties to networks and debates about African evangelization…
Musis Borealibus
The article explores the technoscientific ambitions of an overlooked movement within Swedish history at the end of the Great Northern War. This movement, which the author calls “new boreal science”, roughly lasted from 1710 to 1720. The article explores its semantics, networks, goals and pioneers, and contextualises it within broader discourses on the North during the period 1620-1720. In this way, the article shows how the development of Swedish…
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Musis Borealibus
The article explores the technoscientific ambitions of an overlooked movement within Swedish history at the end of the Great Northern War. This movement, which the author calls “new boreal science”, roughly lasted from 1710 to 1720. The article explores its semantics, networks, goals and pioneers, and contextualises it within broader discourses on the North during the period 1620-1720. In this way, the article shows how the development of Swedish…
Enslaved by African angels
This article provides the first extensive study of Emanuel Swedenborg’s (1688–1772) views on Africans and slavery. Although significant scholarship has been devoted to Swedenborg’s influence on the British abolitionist movement in the 1780s-1790s, comparably little has been written on the ideas and context which inspired this influence in the first place. This article explores Swedenborg’s ties to networks and debates about African evangelization…
Desire, Marriage, and Overpopulation
During the eighteenth century, the discovery of sexual reproduction in insect species prompted the demise of spontaneous generation and new developments in natural history, theology, and political economy. The sexual lives of insects prompted debates on whether insects were governed by desire, free will, and even marital tendency. Fuelled by the democratisation of microscopy, early modern entomology took a new turn and breadth: the study of insec…
Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin
In February 1744 in Paris, the Swedish physician Abraham Bäck (1713–95), better known as Carl Linnaeus’s best friend, dissected the cadaver of an unidentified sub-Saharan man. In contrast to the widespread exploitation of the enslaved dead in North America, cadavers of dark-skinned Africans remained rare in the anatomical theatres of eighteenth-century Europe. Scarcity not only increased their market value in medical circles interested in skin co…
Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Enlightenment (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)