COMMUNICATING OBSERVATIONS IN EARLY MODERN LETTERS (1500–1675)
Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Dirk van Miert: Introduction
Gerhard Holk: The First Anthropologist of America: Petrus Martyr de Angleria (1457–1526) and his Epistolary Reports De orbe novo decades octo
Candice Delisle: ‘The Spices of Our Art’. Medical Observation in Conrad Gessner’s Letters
Florike Egmond: Observing Nature. The Correspondence Network of Carolus Clusius (1526–1609)
William Stenhouse: Monumental Letters in the Late Renaissance
Dirk van Miert: Philology and Empiricism: Observation and Description in the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (1540–1609)
Adam Mosley: Reading the Heavens: Observation and Interpretation of Astronomical Phenomena in Learned Letters circa 1600
Peter N. Miller: Mapping Peiresc’s Mediterranean: Geography and Astronomy, 1610–36
Erik-Jan Bos and Theo Verbeek: Conceiving the Invisible. The Role of Observation and Experiment in Descartes’s Correspondence, 1630–50
Elizabethanne Boran: ‘A Cloud of Witnesses’: Scientific Observation in the Correspondence of Jame Ussher (1581–1656)
Iordan Avramov: Men of Science as Objects of Observation in the Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, 1641–77
Dirk van Miert: Concluding Observations on Communicating Observations

• 978-1-908590-46-6
• 2013
• €50.00