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CATEGORIES:Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of
  Science
SUMMARY:Reading Rivière in early modern England: tracing e
 arly modern epistemic itineraries - Elaine Leong (
 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
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DESCRIPTION:In the late 1630s\, Lazare Rivière\, professor at 
 the University of Montpellier\, delivered a series
  of lectures on practical medicine. Later\, in res
 ponse of requests from physicians writing from all
  over Europe\, Rivière expanded these to include t
 he theory of diseases and the resulting _Praxis me
 dica cum theoria_ was printed in 1645. The work wa
 s hugely popular and translated into French and En
 glish. Peter Cole\, the English printer of the wor
 k\, claims that by 1663 over 1700 copies of the fo
 lio-sized tome had been sold. Moreover\, the book 
 did not only leap off the shelves of booksellers b
 ut was actually read. Surviving copies are often a
 nnotated and extracts from the work appear in cont
 emporary medical notebooks. In bringing Rivière's 
 work to English audiences\, Cole and his team made
  two crucial changes to the text. Firstly\, in his
  preface\, Cole specifically targeted 'Ladies and 
 Gentlewomen' as potential purchasers and readers. 
 Thus\, bringing knowledge originating in the Unive
 rsity setting into the domestic sphere. Secondly\,
  later editions were often sold and bound with the
  English translation of Rivière's _Observationes m
 edicae_ (1646) so mixing the older _practica_ with
  the new medical genre of _observationes_. This pa
 per traces the _Praxis medica_'s journey from univ
 ersity settings into early modern homes. I examine
  three crucial stages in this journey. Firstly\, t
 he codification of the original _practica_ lecture
 s into print. Secondly\, the transformation from t
 he _Praxis medica_ to _The Practice of Physick_ an
 d\, finally\, how readers engaged with and appropr
 iated the knowledge offered by the book. Each one 
 of these steps\, I show\, left its own epistemic f
 ootprint on Rivière's _practica_ and when taken to
 gether form what might be termed an 'epistemic iti
 nerary'. By that I mean itineraries in which bodie
 s of knowledge (as small as a one-line recipe and 
 as large as multi-volume work) become entangled as
  they journey through the winding\, convoluted pro
 cesses of early modern book production and reading
  and writing practices. Historians of science and 
 medicine have recently argued that reading\, writi
 ng and note-taking practices are now also themselv
 es recognised as knowledge codification processes.
  The story of Rivière's _Praxis medica_\, I sugges
 t\, demonstrates that there is much to be gained b
 y paying close attention to the route (and pit sto
 ps) which knowledge takes in this process.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
CONTACT:Marta Halina
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