Science Archives - Malta University Press /mup/store/product-category/science/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:15:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 /mup/store/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/favicon1.ico Science Archives - Malta University Press /mup/store/product-category/science/ 32 32 Medical Sciences in Early Modern Malta: Giuseppe Demarco on the Use and Abuse of Chocolate in Medicine (1760) /mup/store/product/medical-sciences-in-early-modern-malta-giuseppe-demarco-on-the-use-and-abuse-of-chocolate-in-medicine-1760/ /mup/store/product/medical-sciences-in-early-modern-malta-giuseppe-demarco-on-the-use-and-abuse-of-chocolate-in-medicine-1760/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:49:09 +0000 /mup/store/?post_type=product&p=10721 Medical Sciences in Early Modern Malta contains a first English translation of Dr. Giuseppe Demarco’s 1760 medical treatise
Dissertation on Chocolate as well as related contributions by Charles Savona-Ventura, Charles Cassar, William Zammit,
Judge Giovanni Bonello, Maria Giuliana Fenech, and Skye Vassallo. Written by one of Malta’s most voluminous writers and perceptive scholars, Demarco’s Dissertation is a treasure trove of scientific and medical thought current in Malta in the early modern period. This volume, which also features a commentary on the Latin text written by the editor, aims to introduce Dr Giuseppe Demarco (1718-1793) to a modern audience by placing his writings within the broader socio-political, rhetorical, historical, scientific and medical context of early modern Europe.

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Dissertation on Chocolate as well as related contributions by Charles Savona-Ventura, Charles Cassar, William Zammit,
Judge Giovanni Bonello, Maria Giuliana Fenech, and Skye Vassallo. Written by one of Malta’s most voluminous writers and perceptive scholars, Demarco’s Dissertation is a treasure trove of scientific and medical thought current in Malta in the early modern period. This volume, which also features a commentary on the Latin text written by the editor, aims to introduce Dr Giuseppe Demarco (1718-1793) to a modern audience by placing his writings within the broader socio-political, rhetorical, historical, scientific and medical context of early modern Europe.

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