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- **Event Name**: RENAISSANCE DEBATES ON OCCULT QUALITIES. From Jean Fernel to Daniel Sennert
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Renaissance natural philosophers and physicians engaged in intense debates on "occult qualities" at the threshold of the Scientific Revolution. 

The professor of Medicine at the University of Wittenberg, Daniel Sennert (1572-1637), played a significant role in these debates through his assiduous research. His efforts were crystallized in two works of his mature period: an inquiry into occult qualities as the second book of his "Physical Memoirs" (1636); and the massive volume "On Occult Diseases" (1635). Indeed, the Renaissance debates on occult qualities were closely related to those of "occult diseases" ("morbi occulti"), as both issues were intertwined and fervently advanced by Jean Fernel (1497-1558) of Paris. 

Sennert’s lifelong quest for occult qualities and occult diseases was a critical response to Fernel’s ideas. In the present lecture, I will first examine the discussion of Fernel as Sennert’s forerunner (section 1). Then I will look briefly at the debates after Fernel (section 2). These studies will lead to the survey of Sennert’s activity and productions (section 3), followed by the inspection of a striking case of 1610 from his university disputations (section 4). 

All the analyses will contribute to a better understanding of Sennert’s preoccupation and endeavors in their historical and intellectual context. His research on occult diseases and occult qualities stretched from the early stages of his career to the final products of his mature period. 

His lifelong quest had the aim of responding to the Renaissance debates launched by Fernel.
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