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Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) Between Science and Scholarship (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History): 214 Bilingual Edition
Author(s): Eric Jorink (Contributor), Dirk Van Miert (Contributor)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2012
- Edition: Bilingual
- Language: English
- Print length: 366 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789004186705
- ISBN-13: 9004186700
Book Description
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.
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
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Eight chapters by eminent scholars of humanism and Dutch science, alongside two excellent bibliographical studies, as well as a learned editorial introduction and epilogue […]” – Vera Keller, University of Oregon, in: Seventeenth-Century News, pp. 97-100
“[…] all involve a great deal of careful research on the printed and manuscript sources. […] The standard of editing is high throughout, […]. The appendices provided by Van Miert and Balsem are a welcome resource for anybody working with the remarkable Vossius collection, whose printed books in particular are still relatively unexplored.” – N. J. S. Hardy, in: Journal of the History of Collections, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2013), pp. 287-288 (doi: 10.1093/jhc/fht003)
“This exemplary collection […] is well enough organized to function almost as a monograph in its own right […].” – William Poole, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 233-235
“Een rijk boek, met veel informatie over de zeventiende-eeuwse wetenschappen in het algemeen en de geleerde Isaac Vossius in het bijzonder.” – Jan Bloemendal, in: De Zeventiende Eeuw 29 (2013) 1, p. 140
“[…] all involve a great deal of careful research on the printed and manuscript sources. […] The standard of editing is high throughout, […]. The appendices provided by Van Miert and Balsem are a welcome resource for anybody working with the remarkable Vossius collection, whose printed books in particular are still relatively unexplored.” – N. J. S. Hardy, in: Journal of the History of Collections, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2013), pp. 287-288 (doi: 10.1093/jhc/fht003)
“This exemplary collection […] is well enough organized to function almost as a monograph in its own right […].” – William Poole, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 233-235
“Een rijk boek, met veel informatie over de zeventiende-eeuwse wetenschappen in het algemeen en de geleerde Isaac Vossius in het bijzonder.” – Jan Bloemendal, in: De Zeventiende Eeuw 29 (2013) 1, p. 140
About the Author
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).
