Christoph Sander
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I
have studied
philosophy at University of Freiburg (B.A., 2011) and Humboldt
University of Berlin
(M.A., 2013). In 2019, I received my Ph.D. from the Technische Universität Berlin with a thesis on the conceptions of magnetism in
the early-modern period. The aim of this study was to map the various
disciplinary contexts (e.g. medicine, astronomy, or natural philosophy)
in which scholars dealt with loadstones, magnetism, and explanations of
magnetic attraction.
I have a strong commitment to the Digital Humanities, and worked with many different technonogies, apps, and encodings (including IIIF, TEI XML, ResearchSpace, SPARQL, Vikus Viewer, Transkribus).
Ongoing digital research and publications relating to this topic are continously
published on my website Rara
Magnetica.
Between
2019 and 2022, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Bibliotheca
Hertziana in Rome (Max Planck Institute for Art History), within the
research group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions, led by Sietske Fransen. In my project, I
investigate the production, typology and use of diagrams in early modern science. Between 2022 and 2023, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Currently, I work as knowledge engineer at the German Historical Institute in Rome within the Project GRACEFUL17.
Beyond my research related to magnetism and diagrams, I have published on the history of
early-modern Jesuit philosophy, particularly the idea and practice of
censorship in Jesuit colleges.
Furthermore,
I have contributed to a digital
humanities project at the Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science (
Berlin
),
exploring the
history of early-modern editions of and commentaries on Johannes de
Sacrobosco’s astronomical classic De sphaera mundi.
You can download my full CV and list of publications.
Publications
Online
Rara Magnetica:
A Repository of Texts and Images Related to the Premodern Research on Magnetism. Continuously updated, including many digital editions and imager viewer apps
https://doi.org/10.48431/res/qk19-bj96 and raramagnetica.de.
Magnetic Margins:
A Census and Readers' Annotations Database. Continuously updated
https://doi.org/10.48431/res/qk19-bj96/magmar and magnetic-margins.com.
Book
Edited Volume
‚Omne verum vero consonat’. Das
Prinzip der Einheit der Wahrheit zwischen 5. Laterankonzil (1512‐1517)
und Wissenschaftlicher Revolution, edited by Annalisa Capiello, Marco
Lamanna, and Christoph Sander, Freiburger
Zeitschrift für Philosophie und
Theologie 64, no. 1 (OpenAccess) and no. 2 (OpenAccess) (2017).
Articles
published
- (with Hassan el-Hajj and Alessandro Adamou) Magnetic Margins. A Census and Reader Annotations Database. Digital Humanities 2023. Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023, Graz) (OpenAccess)
- Tempering Occult Qualities. Magnetism and complexio in Early Modern Medical Thought. Early Science and Medicine 25, no. 3-5 (2023): 573–596..
- Magnetism in an Aristotelian World (1550-1700). In Aristoteles und die Naturphilosophie an den mitteleuropäischen Universitäten der Frühen Neuzeit, 1600-1700, edited by Bernd Roling, Sinem Kılıç, and Benjamin Wallura, 69–105. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 175. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023.
- Jesuit Science Revisited: Scope, Usefulness, and Challenges of a Historiographical Label. Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 91, no. 182 (2022): 461–493. (OpenAccess).
- How to Send a Secret Message from Rome to Paris in the Early Modern Period: Telegraphy between Magnetism, Sympathy, and Charlatanry. Early Science and Medicine 27, no. 5 (2022): 426–459. (OpenAccess).
- Teaching Magnetism in a Cartesian World, 1650-1700. In Descartes in the Classroom: Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Early Modern Age, edited by Davide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani, 313–342. Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science 35. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. (OpenAccess)
- Rendering Magnetism Visible. Diagrams and Experiments between 1300 and 1700. Centaurus 64, no. 2 (2022): 315–359. (OpenAccess).
- Der Magnetstein in geologischen Theorien der Vormoderne. Der Anschnitt 74, no. 2-3 (2022): 98–108..
- Paratexts, Printers, and Publishers: Book Production in Social Context. In Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe: Modes of
Material and Scientific Exchange, edited
by
Matteo Valleriani and Andrea Ottone, 337–367. Cham: Springer Nature,
2022. (OpenAccess)
- Nutrition and Magnetism. An
Ancient Idea Fleshed out in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Medicine
and Alchemy. In Nutrition
and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle
and Aristotelianism, edited
by
Roberto Lo Presti and Georgia-Maria Korobili, 285–318. Topics in Ancient Philosophy.
Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021.
- Die Außengrenzen des menschlichen
Körpers. Das Wesen von Blut und Haaren in scholastischen Debatten der
Frühen Neuzeit. In De homine.
Anthropologien in der Frühen Neuzeit, edited by Sascha
Salatowsky and Wilhelm Schmidt‐Biggemann, 181-215. Stuttgart: Steiner,
2021.
- Magnetism
for Librarians. Leone Allacci’s De
magnete (1625) and Its Relation to Giulio Cesare LaGalla’s Disputatio de sympathia et antipathia
(1623). Erudition and the
Republic of Letters 5, no. 3 (2020): 274–307. (OpenAccess).
- (with
Matteo Valleriani, Florian Kräutli, Maryam Zamani, Alejandro Tejedor,
Malte Vogl, Sabine Bertram, Gesa Funke, and Holger Kantz) The Emergence of
Epistemic Communities in the Sphaera
Corpus. Journal of Historical
Network Research 3, no. 1 (2019): 50–91. (OpenAccess)
- Magnets and Garlic. An Enduring
Antipathy
in Early-Modern Science. Intellectual
History Review 30, no. 4 (2020): 523–560. (OpenAccess)
- Uniformitas et soliditas doctrinae.
History, Topics and Impact of Jesuit Censorship
in Philosophy (1550-1599). In Jesuit
Philosophy on
the Eve
of Modernity, edited by Cristiano Casalini, 34–71. Jesuit Studies
20. Leiden;
Boston
:
Brill, 2019.
- Johannes
de Sacrobosco und die Sphaera-Tradition in der katholischen Zensur der
Frühen Neuzeit. NTM Zeitschrift
für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 26, no. 4
(2018): 437–474.
(OpenAccess)
- Alfonso
Salmerón über weltliche
Wissenschaften im Dienste der Bibelexegese. In ‚Omne verum
vero consonat’. Das Prinzip
der Einheit der Wahrheit zwischen 5. Laterankonzil (1512‐1517) und
Wissenschaftlicher Revolution. Freiburger
Zeitschrift für Philosophie und
Theologie 64, no. 2 (2017): 344-360. Quellentexte
- Magnetism. In Encyclopedia
of
Renaissance Philosophy, edited by
Marco
Sgarbi. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018.
- Magnetismus
und Theamedismus. Eine Fallstudie zur
Kenntnis der magnetischen Abstoßung in der Naturkunde der Frühen Neuzeit.
Sudhoffs Archiv 101,
no. 1 (2017): 42–72.
- (with Cristiano Casalini) Benet Perera’s Pious Humanism. Aristotelianism,
Philology, and Education in Jesuit Colleges. An Edition of Perera's Documenta quaedam perutilia. In
History
of Universities, edited by
Mordechai Feingold, 30,1:1–42. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- For
Christ’s Sake: Pious Notions of the Human and Animal Body in Early
Jesuit Philosophy and Theology. In Human and Animal Cognition in
Early Modern
Philosophy and Medicine, edited by Roberto Lo Presti and
Stefanie Buchenau, 55–73. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
2017. (OpenAccess).
- Der
Dämon im Text: Lateinische Lesarten von De Somno 453b22 und
De Divinatione per Somnum 463b12
zwischen 1150 und 1650. Recherches
de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales 83, no. 2 (2016): 245–311.
- Early-Modern
Magnetism: Uncovering New Textual Links
between Leonardo
Garzoni SJ (1543–1592), Paolo Sarpi OSM (1552–1623), Giambattista Della
Porta (1535–1615), and the Accademia Dei Lincei. Archivum
Historicum Societatis Iesu
85, no. 2 (2016): 303–63.
-
In dubio pro fide. The
Fifth Council of
the Lateran Decree Apostolici Regiminis
(1513) and Its Impact on Early Jesuit Education and Pedagogy. Educazione.
Giornale di Pedagogia Critica 3, no. 1 (2014): 39–62.
- Medical
Topics in the De Anima Commentary of Coimbra (1598) and the Jesuits’ Attitude
towards Medicine in Education and
Natural
Philosophy. Early Science and Medicine 19, no. 1 (2014):
76–101.
-
The
War of the Roses. The Debate between Diego
de Ledesma and Benet Perera about the Philosophy Course at the Jesuit College in Rome.
Edited by Marco Lamanna and Marco Forlivesi. Quaestio 14
(2014): 31–50.
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