Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) between Science and Scholarship

Biographical note Readership Reviews Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xiii, 352 pp. (one chapter in French; incl. 31 illustrations)

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

French, English

Biographical note

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).

Readership

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.

Reviews

This exemplary collection […] is well enough organized to function almost as a monograph in its own right [...]
William Poole, Renaissance Quarterly , Vol. 66, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 233-235

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

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