# Special Issue on Daniel Sennert (1572-1637) November 07, 2025 The special issue of *Early Science and Medicine* on the medical world of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637) is now available [online](https://brill.com/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/esm.30.issue-4-5.xml) 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](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Anja-Silvia+Goeing) Pages: 317–323 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p317_1.pdf) --- ### 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)](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p324_2.xml) [Elisabeth Moreau](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Elisabeth+Moreau) Pages: 324–350 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p324_2.pdf) --- [Sennert and the Renaissance Debates on Occult Qualities and Occult Diseases](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p351_3.xml) [Hiro Hirai](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Hiro+Hirai) Pages: 351–374 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p351_3.pdf) --- [Secrets, Lies, and Hands with Eyes: Daniel Sennert on Openness and Fraud in Chymistry and Chymical Medicine](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p375_4.xml) [Joel A. Klein](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Joel+A.+Klein) Pages: 375–399 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p375_4.pdf) --- ### B) Controversy about Sennert’s Notion of Transmutation --- [Daniel Sennert’s Evolving Views on Transmutation: an Assortment of Puzzles](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p400_5.xml) [William R. Newman](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=William+R.+Newman) Pages: 400–420 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p400_5.pdf) --- [Metallic Transmutation in Sennert’s Early Writings: Vegetal Analogies and the Question of Emergence](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p421_6.xml) [Andreas Blank](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Andreas+Blank) Pages: 421–446 Online Publication Date: 02 Oct 2025 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p421_6.pdf) --- ### 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*](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p447_7.xml) [Christoph Lüthy](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Christoph+L%C3%BCthy) Pages: 447–471 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p447_7.pdf) --- [Medical Knowledge: Daniel Sennert’s Views on Scurvy and the Role of Dissertations for Their Dissemination](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p472_8.xml) [Anja-Silvia Goeing](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Anja-Silvia+Goeing) Pages: 472–495 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p472_8.pdf) --- [Daniel Sennert and Padua: Personal, Scientific, and Philosophical Exchanges](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p496_9.xml) [Pietro Daniel Omodeo](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Pietro+Daniel+Omodeo) Pages: 496–523 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p496_9.pdf) --- [Printers, Translators, Epitomizers: Seventeenth-century Publications of Sennert’s Works in Italy, the Netherlands, France and England](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p524_10.xml) [Kaspar von Greyerz](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Kaspar+von+Greyerz) Pages: 524–547 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p524_10.pdf) --- ### D) Digital Humanities Projects for Contextualization of Sennert’s Work --- [Contextualizing Daniel Sennert in the Database Project *Medicinae Alumni Vitebergenses* (MAV)](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p548_11.xml) [Manuel Huth](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Manuel+Huth) Pages: 548–554 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p548_11.pdf) --- [Daniel Sennert in Swedish Disputations 1600–1651](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p555_12.xml) [Meelis Friedenthal](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Meelis+Friedenthal) Pages: 555–568 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p555_12.pdf) --- [Behind the Texts: the Collaborative Network of Daniel Sennert’s Dissertations](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p569_13.xml) [Anja-Silvia Goeing](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/search?f_0=author&q_0=Anja-Silvia+Goeing) Pages: 569–577 - [Download PDF](https://brill-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/downloadpdf/view/journals/esm/30/4-5/article-p569_13.pdf) Tags:[Book History](https://anjagoeing.info/tag/book-history/)[Chymistry](https://anjagoeing.info/tag/chymistry/)[Daniel Sennert](https://anjagoeing.info/tag/daniel-sennert/)[Early Sciences](https://anjagoeing.info/tag/early-sciences/)[Knowledge history](https://anjagoeing.info/tag/knowledge-history/)[Medical History](https://anjagoeing.info/tag/medical-history/)[Renaissance Science](https://anjagoeing.info/tag/renaissance-science/) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)