Dear Colleagues,

 

The Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, is pleased to announce a guest lecture by:

 

Martin Mulsow (Erfurt/Gotha)

 

Drugs and Oriental Studies in the Seventeenth Century: Towards an Intellectual History beyond East and West

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 16.00–17.30 (followed by drinks)

Nijmegen, Campus RU Nijmegen, Erasmus Building, room 3.01 - see: http://www.ru.nl/english/about-us/contact/how-get/

 

In the early 1670s Martin Fogel, a physician and linguist from Hamburg, inquired into rumours about Maslach, a drug that the Ottoman Turks supposedly gave their soldiers to enhance their fighting abilities. Fogel wrote a treatise which was lost when he died. As the boxes in which Fogel kept the paper slips with his notes have survived, we can find out a little about his paper technology, the techniques and practices which he used when working as a scientist. Who did he get his information from? How did he record it? How did he read the books that were relevant to his themes? The lecture will trace the entangled history of the Maslach debate from Fogel’s perspective and the Ottoman side.

 

Martin Mulsow is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Erfurt and Director of the Gotha Research Centre for Early Modern Studies. His main areas of research are Renaissance philosophy, the history of early modern scholarship, clandestine literature, and radical Enlightenment. His most recent book is Prekäres Wissen: Eine andere Ideengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (2012).

 

Kind regards,

Okihito Utamura

 

PhD candidate | Center for the History of Philosophy and Science | Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies

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