Scientiae 2025: Istanbul, 16-19 September, Annual Conference

Session

S.4.1. Medical and Natural Knowledge Networks in the Early Modern Ottoman and European Worlds

19 Sept 2025, 09:15

MAIN HALL (Kurul Odası) (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

S.4.1. Medical and Natural Knowledge Networks in the Early Modern Ottoman and European Worlds

• Nazıme Özgür Tamdoğan
• Zongbei Huang (Department of the History of Science, Tsinghua University)
• Jessica Hogbin (Syracuse University)

Description

Chair: Stefano Gulizia

Recording Melancholic Deaths: Necrologies and Healthcare in Early Modern Venice and Padua

Jessica Hogbin (Syracuse University)

19/09/2025, 09:15

Individual papers

On January 8, 1580, sixty-three-year-old jeweler Antonio Bondi, who had suffered from melancholy, threw himself down a well and died, as reported by the Provveditori e Sopraprovveditori alla Sanità (Superintendents and Supervisors of Health) of the Republic of Venice. Necrologies produced in the Veneto demonstrate that melancholic deaths took many forms, from cases such as Biondi’s to more...

Rembert Dodoens’s Construction of an Epistemology of Observational Experience: A Case in Sixteenth-Century Medical Empiricism

Zongbei Huang (Department of the History of Science, Tsinghua University)

19/09/2025, 09:35

Individual papers

Many studies have demonstrated the emergence of “observation” as a new epistemic category in sixteenth-century Europe, as well as an increasingly “empiricist” stance taken by European physicians in their knowledge-making. This study aims to offer a more nuanced perspective on this grand shift through an analysis of the works of Flemish physician and botanist Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585). The...

An Evaluation for the Understanding of Rational Sciences in the Context of Natural Sciences Works in the Classical Period Ottoman

Nazime Özgür Tamdoğan (Ankara University)

19/09/2025, 09:55

Individual papers

When the 'Classical Period' is mentioned in the Ottoman Empire, it is the period from 14th century, when the state became an empire; to the 17th century, when the first modernization movements began. Educational activities in the Classical Period; It was carried out both in formal education institutions such as schools and madrasahs; and also in non-formal education institutions such as...