Online event
November 18 2021, 09:30 - 17:30
This online conference celebrates the quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Willis in 1621. It is held on the same day as Willis was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1663.
As a physician in Oxford, Willis’s work in the 1650s provides an example of rural medical practice in early modern England. As a member of the Oxford Philosophical Club that met from the 1640s, he was central to the move from classical scholasticism to accounts of anatomy and physiology based on observation and experiment. As Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy in Oxford, the surviving records of his lectures from the 1660s provide an example of pedagogy in medicine at that time. And, after moving to London in 1667, Willis continued to interact with a community of scientists and physicians who transformed ideas on respiration, muscular movement, and the nervous system.
Led by four moderators, the twelve speakers will consider the status and developments in natural philosophy in early modern England; the cultural and scientific influences on emerging ideas relating to the vitality of ‘humane bodies’; how this knowledge was set down and communicated through printed books and their illustrations; and the legacy of Willis’s work, and that of some contemporaries, for subsequent developments in medical science. There will be an opportunity for attendees to place questions during the online presentations, for discussion by speakers at the end of each session.
Attending the conference
The event will run as a Zoom webinar on Thursday 18 November, from 09:30 - 17:30 GMT.
Click the ‘Register now’ button to book a place. Zoom signup details will be sent out a week in advance of the conference.
Live subtitles will be available.
For all enquiries, please contact library@royalsociety.org
Session 1: Natural philosophy in early modern England
Moderator:
Anna Marie Roos, School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln; editor Notes and
Records
9.30 – 9.55: Clubs and societies for improving knowledge
Michael Hunter, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of
London
9.55 – 10.20: Religious and political contingency in advancing knowledge
Louis Caron, independent scholar
10.20 – 10.45: Thomas Willis’s imaginative empiricism
Alexander Wragge-Morley, University of Lancaster
10.45 – 11.15: Discussion
Session 2: Structure and function of humane bodies
Moderator:
Catherine Dromelet, Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp
11.30 – 11.55: Willis’s chemical corpuscularianism and his study of fevers
Antonio Clericuzio, Department of Humanities, Roma Tre University
11.55 – 12.20: The anatomy of the brain and nerves
Zoltán Molnár, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
12.20 – 12.45: Anatomising the corporeal soul: Thomas Willis’s medical-philosophical
discourse on Man
Claire Crignon, Department of Philosophy, Sorbonne Université
12.45 – 13.15: Discussion
Session 3: Setting down experiments of the sciences
Moderator:
Giles Mandelbrote, Lambeth Palace
13.45 – 14.10: The book trade in seventeenth century England
James Raven, Magdalene College, Cambridge
14.10 – 14.35: Original and copy in intaglio book illustration
Roger Gaskell, Ffawyddog, Crickhowell
14.35 – 15.00: The printed works of Thomas Willis
Alastair Compston, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge
15:00 – 15:30: Discussion
Session 4: The legacy of Thomas Willis
Moderator:
Jan van Gijn, Department of Neurology, University of Utrecht
15.45 – 16.10: The reflex and integrated activity of the nervous system: contributions
and legacy of Thomas Willis
Miloš Judaš, Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine
16.10 – 16.35: Thomas Willis and the origins of clinical neuroscience
Alasdair Coles, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge
16.35 – 17.00: Was Thomas Willis his brain?
Ray Tallis, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester
17.00 – 17.30: Discussion
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