Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) Between Science and Scholarship

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-18670-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 214, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

Mostly remembered for his library and for his biblical criticism, Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) played a central role in the early modern European world of learning. Taking his cue from the unlikely bedfellows Joseph Scaliger and René Descartes, Vossius published on chronology, biblical criticism, optics, African geography and Chinese civilization, while collecting, annotating and selling one of the century’s most precious libraries. He was appointed an early Fellow of the Royal Society, and moved in the circles which later gave rise to the Académie Royale des Sciences. Together with Christiaan Huygens, he was considered the Dutch Republic’s foremost student of nature.
In this volume, a range of authors analyse Vossius’ participation in the full spectrum of the Republic of Letters, much of which has sadly been written out of the history of both scholarship and science.

Contributors include: Anthony Grafton, Scott Mandelbrote, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Karel Davids, Thijs Weststeijn, Colette Nativel, Susan Derksen and Astrid C. Balsem

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the history of science, scholarship, biblical criticism, the Republic of Letters, the history of the book, and the dynamics of learning in the Dutch Republic in relation to France, England and Italy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jorink, Eric

Miert, Dirk van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations

Introduction. The Challenger: Isaac Vossius and the European World of Learning
Eric Jorink and Dirk van Miert

The French Connection: From Casaubon and Scaliger, via Saumaise, to Isaac Vossius
Dirk van Miert

Isaac Vossius, Chronologer
Anthony Grafton

Isaac Vossius and the Septuagint
Scott Mandelbrote

In the Twilight Zone: Isaac Vossius and the Scientific Communities in France, England and the Dutch Republic
Eric Jorink

A View from a Mountaintop: The Development of Isaac Vossius’ Optics, 1658-1666
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis

In the Shadow of Jesuits: Isaac Vossius and Geography
Karel Davids

Vossius’ Chinese Utopia
Thijs Weststeijn

Isaac Vossius entre Philologie et Philosophie [in French]
Colette Nativel

Manuscript Notes in Books from the Vossius Collection
Susan Derksen

Collecting the Ultimate Scholar’s Library: The Bibliotheca Vossiana
Astrid C. Balsem

Epilogue: Isaac Vossius in Context
Eric Jorink and Dirk van Miert

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Miert, Dirk van
Dirk van Miert (PhD 2004, University of Amsterdam) is a research fellow at the Huygens institute for the History of the Netherlands. He is the author of Humanism in an Age of Science:The Amsterdam Athenaeum in the Golden Age, 1632-1704. He has published books on Hadrianus Junius and has edited, with Paul Botley, the correspondence of Joseph Scaliger.

Jorink, Eric
Eric Jorink (PhD 2004, University of Groningen) is a researcher at the Huygens institute for the History of the Netherlands (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). He is the author of Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715 (Brill 2010). With Dirk van Miert he is a chief editor of Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources.

Eric Jorink (PhD 2004, University of Groningen) is a researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). He is the author of Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715 (Brill 2010). With Dirk van Miert he is a chief editor of Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources.

Dirk van Miert (PhD 2004, University of Amsterdam) is a research fellow at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. He is the author of Humanism in an Age of Science:The Amsterdam Athenaeum in the Golden Age, 1632-1704. He has published books on Hadrianus Junius and has edited, with Paul Botley, The correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (Droz 2012).