Daniel Sennert

…physician and philosopher of nature Daniel Sennert (1572–1637), Democritus’s atomism and the minima theory really amounted to the same thing. As far as philosophy was concerned, Sennert was only interested in the general idea of atomism; the precise content of an atomic doctrine, in his view, ought to be a…

German physician Daniel Sennert first described the disease in 1619, calling it röteln, or rubella, for the red-colored rash that accompanies the illness. Rubella was distinguished from a more serious infectious disease, measles, or rubeola, in the early 19th century. It came to be called German measles…