Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• MALCOLM, NOEL

Titel

Six Unknown Letters from Mersenne to Vegelin

Ist Teil von

• The Seventeenth century, 2001-03, Vol.16 (1), p.95-122

Ort / Verlag

Durham: Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Malcolm talks about the published correspondence of the Minim friar Marin Mersenne (1588--1648) that fills seventeen fat volumes, and constitutes one of the most important monuments of seventeenth-century intellectual life. Mersenne's appetite for information in almost every field of learning was extraordinary and unflagging. The discovery of six hitherto unknown autograph letters by Mersenne--addressed to Philip Ernst Vegelin, and located among the Vegelin papers in the Provincial Archive of Friesland at Leeuwarden--therefore amounts to a significant addition to the corpus of Mersenne's own letters.