#  Schedule 

 



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Program (Version of May 17, 2023)

June 7, 2023

Arrival of Speakers

16:00-18:00

Highlights of the Gotha Research Library: Tour through the library and its holdings relevant to the conference topic

Possibility of meetings and gatherings

June 8, 2023

8:45-9:00 Welcome by the Organizers

1\) Chemistry, Religion, and Medicine: Ancient and New Knowledge

9:00-11:15 Chair: Martin Mulsow

Christoph Lüthy, Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, Radboud University Nijmegen: "[Ancient Knowledge, Growing Counterevidence: The Four Versions of Daniel Sennert’s Handbook of Natural Philosophy](/abstracts#l%C3%BCthyabstract)."

Harold Cook, History of Medicine, Brown University, Providence RI, USA: "[Fear of Atheism and the Defence of Galenism: Problems with Substance rather than Quality](/abstracts#cookabstract)."

Hiro Hirai, Research Associate at Center for Science and Society, Columbia University: "[Sennert and Renaissance Debates on Occult Diseases](https://prod-sennertsworld.drupalsites.harvard.edu/abstracts#debates)."

(Coffee provided)

11:30-13:00 Chair: Anja-Silvia Goeing

Elisabeth Moreau, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK: “[Sennert’s Compromise between Galenic and Paracelsian Pharmacology](/abstracts#moreauabstract).”

Andreas Blank, Private Docent in Philosophy at Universität Klagenfurt, Institut für Philosophie: “[Sennert’s Critique of Emergent Properties and the Question of Confessionalization](/abstracts#blankabstract).”

(Lunch provided)

2\) Medical and Chemical Practices

14:45 Coffee provided

15:00-17:15 Chair: Ann Blair

Joel A Klein, Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Huntington Library, San Marino, California: “[Making Knowledge in Experimental Chymistry and Medicine: The Correspondence of Daniel Sennert and Michael Döring](/abstracts#kleinabstract).”

Charles Gunnoe, Jr., Professor of History, Aquinas College: "[Daniel Sennert: Anti-Paracelsian or Quasi-Paracelsian?](/abstracts#gunnoeabstract)"

William R. Newman, Ruth N. Halls Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University Bloomington: “[An Aristotelian Experimentalist? Daniel Sennert as a Pre-Baconian Case-Study.](/abstracts#newmanabstract)”

19:00: Conference Dinner

June 9, 2023

3\) Medical Publications and the Book Market

9:00-11:15 Chair: Hal Cook

Kaspar von Greyerz, em. Professor in History at University of Basel: “[‘Epitomizers’, Pirates, and Translators: Seventeenth Century Publications of Sennert’s Works in France, Italy, The Netherlands, and England](/abstracts#greyerzabstract).”

Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Associate Professor at Ca' Foscari, Venice: [“Daniel Sennert and the University of Padua: Circulation of Medical Knowledge and Scholars across the Confessional Divide”](/abstracts#omodeiabstract).

Kevin (Ku-ming) Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan: “[The Dissertation in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries](/abstracts#changabstract)”.

 (Coffee provided)

4\) Teaching, Students, and Networks

11:30-13:00 Chair: Joel Klein

Anja-Silvia Goeing, Associate in History, Harvard University; Professor at Institute of Education, University of Zurich: “[Teaching and Making Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: The Case Study of Scurvy in Wittenberg](/abstracts#goeingabstract)”.

Natalia Bachour, Research Associate in Islamic Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich: “[The Unknowing Disciples of Daniel Sennert and his Inconspicuous Impact in the Ottoman Empire](/abstracts#bachourabstract)”.

(Lunch provided)

14:45 Coffee provided

15:00-16:30 Chair: Natalia Bachour

Meelis Friedenthal, Associate Professor of Intellectual History and Intellectual History of the Baltic Sea Region, University of Tartu, Estonia: “[Sennert’s Works in Baltic Dissertations](/abstracts#friedenthalabstract)”.

Manuel Huth, Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Würzburg: “[‘Medicinae Alumni Witebergenses’. A Digital Analysis of the Influence of Wittenberg University on Contemporary Medicine (1502-1648)](/abstracts#huthabstract)”.

16:30-17:00

 General Discussion of Results

June 10, 2023

Individual Departure



 

### International Conference, June 8-9, 2023 at Forschungszentrum Gotha, Universität Erfurt

## **The World of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637): Creation and Dissemination of Medical Knowledge in the 17th Century**


### Organization team: Ann Blair (Harvard), Anja-Silvia Goeing (Zurich/Harvard) (PI), Martin Mulsow (Erfurt)

### Administration: Stefan Müller (Erfurt) and Dr. Markus Meumann (Erfurt) 

The conference is sponsored by Fritz Thyssen Foundation