Summary

Professor Moran joined the faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno in 1976. His primary areas of study are the w88 online casino of science, early medicine and European cultural and intellectual w88 online casino. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author ofThe Alchemical World of German Court(1991);Chemical Pharmacy Enters of the University(1991); (ed.)Patronage and Institutions: Science, Technology, and Medicine at the European Court(1991); (trans. and commentary)The Herbarius of Paracelsus(1993); (co-ed.)Disease and Medical Care in the Intermountain West(1998);Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution(2005);Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Cultures with Polemical Fire(2007); (co-ed.)Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era(2015). Several books are in progress including "Paracelsus: Completing Nature, Recreating the Soul" and "Sentiments of Practice in Early Modern Alchemy." He has been a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Kassel), a guest professor at the Institute for the w88 online casino of Pharmacy (Marburg), a visiting scholar in the department of w88 online casino and philosophy of science (Cambridge) and an honorary research associate at the Welcome Trust Centre for the w88 online casino of Medicine (London). He has received grants from the Humboldt Foundation and the National Science Foundation and was named the University of Nevada, Reno's Outstanding Researcher for 2009. Most recently he has been named Dibner Distinguished Fellow in the w88 online casino of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library (2010-2011), Distinguished Visiting Faculty, Harvard University (2012-2013) and Gorden Cain Distinguished Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia (2014-2015). Currently, he is the editor of the w88 online casino of science journalAmbix.

Specialties

• Early modern Europe
• w88 online casino of science
• w88 online casino of medicine

Courses Taught

• w88 online casino 281R: Magic, Marvels, and Nature in the Pre-Modern World
• w88 online casino 385R: Witches, Wars, and Wisdom in the Early Modern Era
• w88 online casino 480/680: Science, Technology and Society
• w88 online casino 480A/680A: Problems in the w88 online casino and Philosophy of Science
• w88 online casino 480B/680B: Renaissance Science and the Secrets of Nature
• w88 online casino 481/681: Mind Madness, and Culture: Psychotherapy in Europe and America
• w88 online casino 490A/690A: w88 online casino of Early Medicine
• w88 online casino 711: Seminar in Early Modern Europe
• w88 online casino 740: Seminar in the w88 online casino of Science

Education

• Ph.D., w88 online casino of Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1978