Publications

"This Is a Locus" argues that Zurich’s Schola Tigurina forged a distinctive culture of knowledge organization whose influence radiated throughout Reformation-era Zurich. Beginning with the rubric "This is a locus" that punctuates Theodor Bibliander’s...

This special issue uses the career and achievements of one of the most important medical scholars of the early seventeenth century, Daniel Sennert, to construct a systematic analysis of how medical knowledge was created and disseminated in the early...

This article explores how scurvy, a disease resulting from vitamin C deficiency, was understood and treated in the Holy Roman Empire from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. It focuses on Daniel Sennert’s work on scurvy of 1624 and 1631, which...

The guiding idea behind the Sennert Collaborators database is the recognition that university dissertations of the early modern period were not merely academic exercises but critical artifacts in the creation and dissemination of knowledge. This digital...

Nach der Gründungsphase der Schola Tigurina, bekannt geworden auch als Prophezey,[i] wie sie im Kapitel Luca Bascheras beschrieben wird, untersucht dieses Kapitel die Weiterentwicklung der Institution im Verlauf des 16. Jahrhunderts, mit besonderem...

Thanks to recent advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. How did information become so central to our everyday lives? This book traces the global emergence of information practices and technologies across pivotal epochs and...

This chapter references Daniel Sennert’s dissertations to examine the development of new medical knowledge. It also covers new ways of assimilating and transmitting information in early modern Europe. Dissertations have only recently become...

Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 11:30am ET

Time at Location: 17:30 Bologna time.

Abstract:

Major figures of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, such as Conrad Gessner, Ulisse...

This chapter analyzes how the physics courses of Jean-Robert Chouet
(1642–1731) changed across the twenty years of his career as a professor of philosophy,
first at the Academy of Saumur (starting in 1664) then at the Academy of
Geneva (1669–86). We compare...

Although routinely neglected by scholars, ephemeral poetry can teach us much about social networks and networks of knowledge in the early modern period. Sixteenth-century religious reform and the proliferation of scholarship through the new means of the...

A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries

Price: $65.00 / £54.00 ISBN: 9780691179544 Published: 01/12/2021 Copyright: 2020 Pages: 796 Size: 7 x 10 in. Illus: 38 b/w illus...