People at LBC
Mark Waddell, Ph.D.
Visiting Instructor
| Department: | HPS |
| Address: | W-25d Holmes |
| Phone: | (517) 884-0594 |
| Email: | waddellm@msu.edu |
Dr. Waddell is a Visiting Instructor in the Lyman Briggs College. He received his B.A. (Honours) in History from the University of Calgary in 2000, and his Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the Johns Hopkins University in 2005. His research is focused primarily in the seventeenth century, and explores the complex interplay between religion and science in Europe in the wake of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reform. He is currently at work on a book (tentatively entitled, Meditating on Nature's Secrets: The Jesuit Struggle with the Invisible in the Seventeenth Century) which examines the links between scientific works written by Jesuit authors and elements of their unique spiritual and meditative traditions.
He also has an interest in theories of natural magic and related disciplines from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, and has devoted considerable study to the infamous unguentum armarium, or weapon salve, which was reputed to heal wounds over great distances when applied not to the wound itself, but to the weapon which had caused it. In the future, he hopes to pursue a growing interest in natural history and collecting in the early modern period, as well as an abiding interest in the intersections between science and artistic representations of the natural world.
Selected Publications
Waddell, Mark A. 2006. "The World, As It Might Be: Iconography and Probabilism in the Mundus subterraneus of Athanasius Kircher." Centaurus, 48(1): 3-23.
Waddell, Mark A. 2003. "The Perversion of Nature: Johannes Baptista van Helmont, the Society of Jesus, and the Magnetic Cure of Wounds." Canadian Journal of History, 38(2): 179-197.
He also has an interest in theories of natural magic and related disciplines from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, and has devoted considerable study to the infamous unguentum armarium, or weapon salve, which was reputed to heal wounds over great distances when applied not to the wound itself, but to the weapon which had caused it. In the future, he hopes to pursue a growing interest in natural history and collecting in the early modern period, as well as an abiding interest in the intersections between science and artistic representations of the natural world.
Selected Publications
Waddell, Mark A. 2006. "The World, As It Might Be: Iconography and Probabilism in the Mundus subterraneus of Athanasius Kircher." Centaurus, 48(1): 3-23.
Waddell, Mark A. 2003. "The Perversion of Nature: Johannes Baptista van Helmont, the Society of Jesus, and the Magnetic Cure of Wounds." Canadian Journal of History, 38(2): 179-197.
