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    sketch of Vossius' intellectual milieu. Steven Massil, 2003. "Immigrant librarians in Britain: Huguenots and Some Others" (pdf file) "Vossius, Isaac" . Dictionary...
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  • his Latin name Dionysius Vossius, was a Dutch translator. He was the son of Gerardus Vossius and the brother of Isaac Vossius. Born in Dordrecht, he studied...
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  • Vossius may refer to: Gerardus Vossius (1577–1649), a Dutch humanist Dionysius Vossius (1612–1633), a Dutch translator, son of Gerardus Vossius Isaac...
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    liquids, so the air pressure was lower inside capillaries. Others (e.g., Isaac Vossius, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Louis Carré, Francis Hauksbee, Josia Weitbrecht)...
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    made a chronicle of Holland. Francis Vossius was Gerardus Vossius's brother. A person also called Gerardus Vossius, a Roman Catholic who made annotated...
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    mania", Goldsmith wrote. To catalogue her new collection she asked Isaac Vossius to come to Sweden and Heinsius to purchase more books on the market...
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    some Continental Protestants (such as Oliger Paulli, Isaac Vossius, Hugo Grotius, Gerhard Vossius and David Blondel). During the late Tudor and early Stuart...
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    Mark". The text of the letter was handwritten into the endpapers of Isaac Vossius' 1646 printed edition of the works of Ignatius of Antioch. This letter...
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  • pronunciation of Ancient Greek occurred as a result of the work of Isaac Vossius. He maintained in an anonymously published treatise that the written...
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  • dissertation of 1685 provoked an "angry and scurrilous reply" from Isaac Vossius (1618–1689), who had been librarian to Queen Christina of Sweden, in...
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    discovered the text of the letter handwritten into the endpapers of Isaac Vossius' 1646 printed edition of the works of Ignatius of Antioch. This letter...
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    According to Dijksterhuis, "In De natura lucis et proprietate (1662) Isaac Vossius said that Descartes had seen Snell's paper and concocted his own proof...
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    abdication, the codex went to the Netherlands among the property of Isaac Vossius, her former librarian. In the 1660s it was bought and taken to Uppsala...
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    the siphōn, which suggested an explosive discharge. From the times of Isaac Vossius, several scholars adhered to this position, most notably the so-called...
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    at all. Cardozo de Bethencourt, « Lettres de Menasseh ben Israël à Isaac Vossius (1651-1655) », Revue des études juives, n. 49-97, 1904, p. 98. He relies...
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  • Chamberlayne, English poet and playwright (born c. 1619) February 21 – Isaac Vossius, Dutch-born collector of manuscripts (born 1618) April 16 – Aphra Behn...
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    engaged in a study of the Codex Argenteus in 1654. Isaac Vossius entrusted the codex to Junius. Vossius had secured the codex from Queen Christina as part...
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  • under his name. Because this was clearly a mistake Lucas Holstenius and Isaac Vossius were the first to attribute it to Scymnus of Chios because he was cited...
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    Brewster (1611–1650/1) pilgrim and founder of Bridgewater, Massachusetts Isaac Vossius (1618–1689) scholar, manuscript collector and Canon at Windsor Castle...
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    had enemies there: Nikolaes Heinsius, son of his foe Daniel, but also Isaac Vossius (son of Gerardus) with whom he had fallen out. They circulated gossip...
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    Rhijne, Benedictus/Baruch Spinoza, Peter Serrarius, Jan Swammerdam, Isaac Vossius. Peer review A. Rupert Hall, "Oldenburg, Henry", Complete Dictionary...
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    from Prague to Sweden at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648. Isaac Vossius, a Dutch librarian of Queen Christina took it to his home town. In 1662...
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    Genealogie Peeters-Rouneau » Genealogie Online". His account, given to Isaac Vossius was used by Olfert Dapper in 1668. Baesjou, René (2005). "Historiae...
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  • under his name. Because this was clearly a mistake Lucas Holstenius and Isaac Vossius were the first to attribute it to Scymnus of Chios, a writer cited more...
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    Bongars and Paul Pétau, and Pétau's share was largely acquired in 1650 by Isaac Vossius as the agent of Christina, Queen of Sweden, who took her library to...
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    influenced by the De theologia gentili of Gerardus Vossius, and seen into print by Isaac Vossius. It is an early work on comparative religion, and gives...
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    February 19 – Khushal Khattak, Afghan poet (b. 1613) February 21 – Isaac Vossius, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1618) February 22 – Willem Ogier, Flemish...
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    version. The dissertation was generally regarded as conclusive, although Isaac Vossius published an angry and scurrilous reply to it in the appendix to his...
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    Christina of Sweden, who was being taught Greek by his schoolfriend Isaac Vossius. In 1654 he travelled to Stade to negotiate an end to an argument about...
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    Goyer, Nicolaas Heinsius, Jacobus Gronovius, Johann Georg Graevius, and Isaac Vossius. He earned a doctorate in Law at the University of Utrecht in 1677....
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