Special Issue on Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)

The special issue of Early Science and Medicine on the medical world of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637) is now available online with partially open access. The collection explores the creation and dissemination of medical knowledge in the seventeenth century.

 

 

Table of content

Introduction to “The World of Daniel Sennert (1572–1637): Creation and Dissemination of Medical Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century”

Anja-Silvia Goeing Pages: 317–323

A) Chymistry, Natural Philosophy, and Medicine: Ancient and New Knowledge and How to Discuss It

Appraising Paracelsian Therapy: Panaceas, Signatures, and Metallic Drugs in Sennert’s Chymical Medicine (1619)

Elisabeth Moreau Pages: 324–350

Sennert and the Renaissance Debates on Occult Qualities and Occult Diseases

Hiro Hirai Pages: 351–374

Secrets, Lies, and Hands with Eyes: Daniel Sennert on Openness and Fraud in Chymistry and Chymical Medicine

Joel A. Klein Pages: 375–399

B) Controversy about Sennert’s Notion of Transmutation

Daniel Sennert’s Evolving Views on Transmutation: an Assortment of Puzzles

William R. Newman Pages: 400–420

Metallic Transmutation in Sennert’s Early Writings: Vegetal Analogies and the Question of Emergence

Andreas Blank Pages: 421–446 Online Publication Date: 02 Oct 2025

C) Sennert’s Publications in Use: Translations, Libraries, Media in Transition, and the Book Market

How to Choose between Pedagogical Coherence and Empirical Counterevidence? The Four Versions of Daniel Sennert’s Epitome naturalis scientiæ

Christoph Lüthy Pages: 447–471

Medical Knowledge: Daniel Sennert’s Views on Scurvy and the Role of Dissertations for Their Dissemination

Anja-Silvia Goeing Pages: 472–495

Daniel Sennert and Padua: Personal, Scientific, and Philosophical Exchanges

Pietro Daniel Omodeo Pages: 496–523

Printers, Translators, Epitomizers: Seventeenth-century Publications of Sennert’s Works in Italy, the Netherlands, France and England

Kaspar von Greyerz Pages: 524–547

D) Digital Humanities Projects for Contextualization of Sennert’s Work

Contextualizing Daniel Sennert in the Database Project Medicinae Alumni Vitebergenses (MAV)

Manuel Huth Pages: 548–554

Daniel Sennert in Swedish Disputations 1600–1651

Meelis Friedenthal Pages: 555–568

Behind the Texts: the Collaborative Network of Daniel Sennert’s Dissertations

Anja-Silvia Goeing Pages: 569–577

Tags:Book HistoryChymistryDaniel SennertEarly SciencesKnowledge historyMedical HistoryRenaissance Science

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