Christoph Sander
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I
have studied
philosophy at University of Freiburg (B.A., 2011) and Humboldt
University Berlin
(M.A., 2013). In 2019, I received my Ph.D. from the Technical
University of 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. Ongoing digital research and publications relating to this topic are continously
published on my website Rara
Magnetica.
Since
October 2019, I am 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. My two guiding
questions are: What is a diagram in the early modern period? And what
are different types of diagrams scientists used for different purposes
in that period? As a case study it shall be focused on pre-modern
(1300–1650) attempts to visualize magnetism through diagrams, serving
as a blueprint for other historical fields of research.
During the spring term 2020, I have been a senior fellow at
Boston College's Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, preparing an OpenAccess online edition of
Leonardo Garzoni's Trattato delli maravigliosi effetti della calamita et
delle cause loro. This edition is prepared with Transkribus and TEI technology.
Beyond my research related to magnetism I have a second field
of research, namely, 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.
I have been a contributor to the New
Sommervogel (Boston College) and I have been appointed as Associate Editor for the series History of Early Modern
Educational Thought (Brill). In 2019, I have contributed to the Leibniz-Edition at the
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Between 2008 and 2017, I have assisted
the Secretary General of the SIEPM. I
have co-organized conferences/panels (among others at the Annual
Meeting of the Renaissance
Society of America and at the Villa Vigoni)
and delivered several papers at
international conferences.
You can download my CV here.
Publications
Online
Rara Magnetica:
A Repository of Texts and Images Related to the Premodern Research on Magnetism.
https://doi.org/10.48431/res/qk19-bj96.
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
- 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.
submitted
- 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.
- 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.
Wolfenbütteler Forschungen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
- Teaching Magnetism in a Cartesian World (1650-1700). In Descartes in the Classroom, edited by Davide Cellamare and Mattia
Mantovani. Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science. Leiden; Boston: Brill.
- Tempering Occult Qualities.
Magnetism and Complexio in Early Modern Medical Thought. Edited by
Chiara Beneduce and Paul J. J. M. Bakker. Early Science and
Medicine.
- Terra AB. Descartes’s Imagery
on Magnetism and Its Legacy. In Cartesian Images. Picturing Natural
Philosophy in the Early Modern Age, edited by Davide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani. Medieval
and Early Modern Philosophy and Science. Leiden; Boston: Brill.
in preparation
- Messungen und Erklärungen der
magnetischen Inklination im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert.
- Pietro Pomponazzi on Magnetic and Sexual
Attraction.
- What Was a Diagram in the Early-Modern
Period?
- Making Magnetism Visible in the
Early-Modern Period. A Census of All Images Related to Magnetism
between 1500 and 1650.
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