Daniel Sennert [SEP] place of birth
Daniel Sennert
Daniel Sennert (November 25, 1572 – July 21, 1637) was a renowned German physician and a prolific academic writer, especially in the field of alchemy or chemistry. He held the position of professor of medicine at the University of Wittenberg for many years.
Biographical information.
Daniel Sennert was born in 1572 in the city of Breslau (now Wrocław), at the time part of the Habsburg Monarchy. His father, Nicolaus Sennert, was a shoemaker from Laehn, Silesia.
Sennert attended
atoms. The similarities of his ideas with those of al-Ghazali suggest that Nicholas may have been familiar with Ghazali's work, perhaps through Averroes' refutation of it (Marmara, 1973–74).
Although the atomism of Epicurus had fallen out of favor in the centuries of Scholasticism, the "minima naturalia" of Aristotelianism received extensive consideration. Speculation on "minima naturalia" provided philosophical background for the mechanistic philosophy of early modern thinkers such as Descartes, and for the alchemical works of Geber and Daniel Sennert, who in