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Isaac Vossius (1618-1689), between science and scholarship [electronic resource] / edited by Eric Jorink and Dirk van Miert

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages).
Additional Creators
Jorink, Eric and Miert, Dirk van
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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 the 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 / Colette Nativel -- Manuscript Notes in Books from the Vossius Collection / Susan Derksen -- Collecting the Ultimate Scholar's Library: The Bibliotheca Vossiana / Astrid C. Balsem.
Summary
This volume describes how Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) rose to fame in the fascinating world of seventeenth-century scholarship and science.
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ISBN
9789004233119 (electronic book)
9789004233119 (electronic bk.)
9004233113 (electronic bk.)
9789004186705
9004186700
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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