Republic of Letters (Early Modern History)
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Readership All those interested in early modern history, the history of (informal) diplomacy, the history of cultural transfer, the history of collecting; art history of the early modern period; intellectual history. For more information... more
This is the first book on the genesis, impact and reception of the most-widely read History of England of the early 18th century: Paul Rapin Thoyras' Histoire d'Angleterre (1724-27). The Histoire and complementary works (Extraits des... more
A fresh translation and in-depth commentary of Leibniz's seminal text, the Monadology. Written in 1714, the Monadology is widely considered to be the classic statement of Leibniz's mature philosophy. In the space of 90 numbered... more
Translations: German (1996); Italian (1996); Portuguese(1997); French (1997); Finnish (1997); Swedish (1998, History Book of the Month Club), Russian (1999); Spanish (1999); Japanese (2001); Polish (2012); Czech (2013). Forthcoming Korean.
Scholars have generally depicted kabbalists within an air of exclusivity. During the second quarter of the eighteenth century, however, a handful of Jewish mystics in Padua, led by Moses Hayim Luzzatto, opened their secret society to... more
Il saggio intende dimostrare che, subito dopo la pubblicazione, da parte di Alberico Gentili, dei De iuris interpretibus Dialogi sex (1582) e delle Lectiones et Epistolae (1583-1584) i rapporti fra Jean Hotman e il giurista di San Ginesio... more
Computational flattening algorithms have been successfully applied to X-ray microtomography scans of damaged historical documents, but have so far been limited to scrolls, books, and documents with one or two folds. The challenge tackled... more
When does a depiction of the moon become a lunar map? This publication addresses this question from theoretical and historical standpoints. It is argued that moon maps are of crucial importance to the history of cartography, for they... more
The article offers a case study in the nature of uses of the European past in East Asia at a time when the search for the knowledge of the West was not yet motivated primarily by any sense of its civilizational, moral, or technological... more
This book explores women as book collectors in Spain from c. 1500 to the end of the eighteenth century. There is a presentation on the problems women collectors had for developing this passion. Then some of the most famous women's... more
This article provides, for the first time, an overview of all images (drawings and prints) sent by the Dutch microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) to the Royal Society during their fifty-year long correspondence. Analyses of the... more
A biographical study of the bishop of Vilnius Eustachius Wołłowicz (Valavičius, 1572-1630). Aspects of the bishop as a titular Benedictine abbot, a promoter of religious orders (esp. Jesuits, Discalced Carmelites, Lateran canons,... more
The sermon Thomas Gataker gave at the wedding of Brilliana Conway and Sir Robert Harley in 1623, was published under the title “A Wife in Deed” (1623). Gataker defines marriage as an affective contract between two agents with... more
Paper and slides presented at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 23-29, 2017) - Symposium S28, "Multiple Spaces: Mapping Communication via Letters between Naturalists"... more