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The Centre for Early Modern Studies is happy to delighted to announce a workshop on 28-29 October 2022, supported by the AHRC Research Networking Scheme brought to Aberdeen by Cassie Gorman (Anglia Ruskin University) and Stefano Gulizia (University of Milan and the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies, Warsaw), in cooperation with the Museum and Special Collections, University of Aberdeen.
The focus of this workshop will be on sixteenth and seventeenth-century medical research and academic mobility between Scotland and continental Europe. Our aim, drawing on the rich collections at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, is to reconsider the foreign transactions in medical research that paved the way to Isaac Newton's era in the British Isles. This workshop will focus especially on the archive of the physician Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) and the work of the Edinburgh-born medical practitioner John Craig (died 1620), who was first physician to James VI, later James I of England, and a practicing astronomer. Both the geographical focus and the designated time period of this research have been overlooked by past scholarship, which has tended to focus on continental academic activity during the 'Republic of Letters', later in the seventeenth century.
Programme
Friday, 28 October
10.30: Welcome: Stefano Gulizia and Cassie Gorman
11.00 – 12.30, Panel 1 (Aberdeenshire networks, chaired by Cassie Gorman)
David McOmish: ‘Failures and successes in educational reform in the new sciences at the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh: Duncan Liddel and the Edinburgh circle’
Andrew Gordon: ‘The Print Voyages and Literary Communities of Alexander Craig of Rosecraig’
1.30 – 3.30, Panel 2 (continental networks, chaired by Stefano Gulizia)
Kathrin Zickermann: ‘Scots in Early Modern Pomerania’
Catherine Jones: ‘Scottish Travellers to the Early Modern Netherlands and Russia’
Riccarda Suitner: ‘Scientists, Encyclopedists, and Exorcists: a Demonological Debate in Early Eighteenth-Century Germany’
4 – 5.30, Duncan Liddel’s library, exhibition and talk from Jane Pirie
Saturday, 29 October
10.00 – 12.00, Panel 3 (astronomy, medicine and maths, chaired by Karin Friedrich)
Vladimír Urbánek: ‘Medicine, Chronology and Transfer of Knowledge in the Thirty Years War: Simeon Partlicius and his Search for Patronage’
Richard Oosterhoff: ‘Henri de Monantheuil: Medicine and maths after Ramus and before Liddel was in Paris’
Stefano Gulizia: ‘A Bottomless Lake: Ambrosius Rhodius (1605-96) and the Origins of Early Modern Paracelsianism in Saxony and Denmark’
1.00-2.30, round-table discussion
Please contact k.friedrich@abdn.ac.uk for information about registration for the workshop.