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Evangelista Torricelli letter to Marin Marsenne, 1645.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Geometry--Early works to 1800.
- Geometry.
- Mathematics--Early works to 1800.
- Mathematics.
- Optics--Early works to 1800.
- Optics.
- Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737.
- Florence (Italy).
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps; sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H.P. Kraus, March 1978.
- Appears in H. P. Kraus's cat. 155 (1980), no. 89, and cat. 186 (1991), no. 156.
- Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 32.
- Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
- Physical Description:
- 1 leaf : paper ; 275 x 201 mm
- Place of Publication:
- 1645.
- Language Note:
- In Latin.
- Biography/History:
- Mathematician and philosopher in the court of Ferdinando II, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
- Summary:
- Letter in Torricelli's cursive hand to Father Marin Mersenne, praising a lens owned by Ferdinando II, promising to send a lens he himself made, and discussing spherical geometry. Written from Florence, dated 9 January 1645, on a single paper leaf with a watermark of a bishop's miter. Tipped into a modern morocco binding with gilt title and erroneous date of 1649.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 116 (LJS 201).
- Cited as:
- LJS 201
- OCLC:
- 850937672
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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