Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) Between Science and Scholarship

Vossius is remembered primarily for his magnificent library and his philological studies, but in his day was considered, with Huygens (1629-95), the Dutch Republic's foremost students of nature. Contributors identified only by name explore his writings, demonstrating the breadth of his interests and particularly how he crossed back and forth between what are now distinct spheres of science and humanities. The topics include his challenge to the European world of learning, Vossius and the Septuagint, the development of his optics 1658-66, his Chinese utopia, manuscript notes in books from his collection, and the Bibliotheca Vossiana. The 10 papers are from a November 2007 peripatetic conference in Amsterdam, The Hague, and Leiden. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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).