... Read more about Out on January 19, 2021: Information: A Historical Companion

How did early modern scholars work together to generate and publish new medical knowledge? This project examines an important bibliographic discovery: a set of 176 treatises, pamphlets, dissertations and disputations written by the renowned physician and professor of anatomy Daniel Sennert (Wrocław 1572–Wittenberg 1637) in collaboration with 488 different co-authors, most of them his supervised doctoral students. Our project analyzes and contextualizes this trove of unstudied materials for what it reveals about academic collaboration in the...