Stanisław Lubieniecki and Johannes Hevelius: (Extra)ordinary “Men of Letters”

• Authors: Jasiński Maciej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The correspondence with Stanisław Lubieniecki (1623–1675) is the fourth most voluminous in the corpus of letters of Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687) – there are over ninety letters they wrote to each other between 1664 and 1673. Their positions in the learned world, however, were very unequal. Hevelius was a reputed astronomer and a fellow of the Royal Society, while Lubieniecki was an amateur interested in comets and astronomy. In this paper, I present the goals they have in this correspondence and the ways in which they tried to achieve them, and I try to explain why their correspondence was so numerous and long-lasting.

Keywords

EN

Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687); Stanisław Lubieniecki (1623–1675); scholarly correspondence; history of astronomy; comets

PL

Jan Heweliusz (1611–1687); Stanisław Lubieniecki (1623–1675); korespondencja naukowa; historia astronomii; komety

• Publisher: Instytut Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 125–137

Contributors

author

Jasiński Maciej

• L. & A. Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/0023589XKHNT.19.007.10115