Bibliography of Secondary Literature (work in progress)
Arthur, Richard. “Animal generation and substance in Sennert and Leibniz.” In Justin E. H. Smith (ed.), The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy. Cambridge University Press (2006).
Bachour, Natalia. Oswaldus Crollius und Daniel Sennert im fruhneuzeitlichen Istanbul: Studien zur Rezeption des Paracelsismus im Werk des osmanischen Arztes Ṣāliḥ b. Naṣrullāh Ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī. Centaurus Verlag & Media, 2015.
Blank, Andreas. “Daniel Sennert on Poisons, Epilepsy, and Subordinate Forms.” Perspectives on Science, vol. 19, no. 2, MIT Press, The MIT Press, MIT Press Journals, 2011, pp. 192–211.
Blank, Andreas. "Sennert and Leibniz on Animate Atoms." In Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz, 67:115–30. The New Synthese Historical Library. The Netherlands: Springer Netherlands, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0041-3_8.
Barow-Vassilevitch, Daria. Who Needs Albertina Dissertations in Russia? Königsberg Dissertations from the Early Modern Age in the Russian State Library (Moscow). In: Meelis Friedenthal, Hanspeter Marti, and Robert Seidel, eds., Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context. Intersections, 71. Leiden: Brill, 2021, 577-599. (pp. 581-582 on four dissertations from the former State University Library in Koenigsberg that Johann Lösel--one of Sennert's former students and now professor--presided)
Brentini, Pietro. Die Institutiones medicinae des Daniel Sennert (1572-1637). Juris, 1971.
Cellamare, Davide. “Controversies over the Soul and Its Origin.” Early Science and Medicine 25, no. 2 (2020): 195–204.
Chang, Ku-ming. "For the Love of the Truth: The Dissertation as a Genre of Scholarly Publication in Early Modern Europe." Know (Chicago, Ill. : 2017) 5, no. 1 (2021): 113-66.
Eckart, Wolfgang. “‘Auctoritas’ versus ‘Veritas’ or: Classical Authority and Its Role for the Perception of Truth in the Work of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637).” Clio Medica, vol. 18, no. 1, Editions Rodopi, 1983, pp. 131-140.
Goeing, Anja. Sennert Collaborators (Website In Progress): https://sennertcollab.omeka.fas.harvard.edu
Goeing, Anja. “Daniel Sennert’s Dissertations and the Furthering of Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Medicine.” History of Universities 36, no. 1 (2023): 99-141.
Grell, Ole, and Andrew Cunningham, eds. Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia. London: Routledge, 2017.
Greyerz, Kaspar von. “Early Modern Protestant Virtuosos and Scientists: Some Comments.” Zygon, vol. 51, no. 3 (2016): 698–717.
Grouchy, de. “Documents relatifs à l’impression des oeuvres de Daniel Sennert (1650) et de François Tallemant (1666).” Revue des Bibliothèques, vol. 5, Émile Bouillon, 1895, pp. 48-.
Gunnoe, Charles D., Jr., and Dane T. Daniel. "Anti-Paracelsianism from Conrad Gessner to Robert Boyle," Daphnis 48, 1-2 (2020): 104-139.
Hirai, Hiro. “Atomes vivants, origine de l’âme et génération spontanée chez Daniel Sennert.” Bruniana e campanelliana : ricerche filosofiche e materiali storico-testuali, no. 2, Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2007.
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---. Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life, and the Soul. Brill, 2011.
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Kangro, Hans. “Sennert, Daniel.” Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 12, 2008, pp. 310–313.
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---. "Secrets, Lies, and Hands with Eyes: Daniel Sennert on Openness and Fraud in Chymistry and Chymical Medicine". Early Science and Medicine 30.4-5 (2025): 375-399. https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-20251356.
Koch, Hans Theodor. "Die Wittenberger Medizinische Fakultät (1502–1652) – Ein biobibliographischer Überblick." In: Stefan Oehmig, ed. Medizin und Sozialwesen in Mitteldeutschland zur Reformationszeit. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7.
Kuester, Klaus. "Daniel Sennerts Psychopathologie." Inaugural Dissertation, Munich, 1959.
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Lüthy, Christoph. “Daniel Sennert’s Slow Conversion from Hylemorphism to Atomism.” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, vol. 26, no. 2, 2005, pp. 99–121.
Lüthy, Christoph, and William R. Newman. “Daniel Sennert's earliest writings (1599-1600) and their debt to Giordano Bruno.” Bruniana & Campanelliana, vol. 6, no. 2, Istituto Editoriale e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2000, pp. 261–279.
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Michael, Emily. “Daniel Sennert on Matter and Form: At the Juncture of the Old and the New.” Early Science and Medicine, vol. 2, no. 3, Brill, 1997, pp. 272–299.
Moreau, Elisabeth. "Appraising Paracelsian Therapy: Panaceas, Signatures, and Metallic Drugs in Sennert’s Chymical Medicine (1619)." Early Science and Medicine 30.4-5 (2025): 324-350. https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-20251354.
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---. Elective Affinity Before Geoffroy: Daniel Sennert’s Atomistic Explanation of Vinous and Acetous Fermentation. 2012, pp. 99–124.
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Nummedal, Tara. Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Omodeo, Pietro Daniel. "Daniel Sennert and the University of Padua: Circulation of Medical Knowledge and Scholars Across the Confessional Divide in the Seventeenth Century." In Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar, ed. by Gideon Manning and Anna Marie Roos. Archimedes. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023, 61–78.
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