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基本説明
With one chapter in French.
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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
Contents
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
