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The Correspondence between Johannes Hevelius and Pierre des Noyers, as the Mirror of Scientific Novelties

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Grell C.
Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
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2019
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vol. 64
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issue 1
117–123
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Pierre des Noyers (1608–1693), a disciple of Gilles Personne de Roberval, is the most important correspondent of Johannes Hevelius. Their correspondence consists of 257 letters, in a corpus of 2700 letters, i.e. about 10% of the total. Pierre des Noyers came to Poland with Queen Louise-Marie de Gonzague. During his Polish travels he spent some time in Gdańsk (December 1646) and met the astronomer who was a prominent member of the city elite, as one of the most important brewers. During this period, Hevelius was completing his Selenographia (1647) and Pierre des Noyers was very helpful in expanding a European network that already included Marin Mersenne and Pierre Gassendi. The relations between the two scholars were very intense. After the death of the Queen (1667), des Noyers stayed in his friend’s house. The last letter is dated October 1686. Hevelius died in January 1687. Pierre des Noyers remained in Poland where he died in 1693. At this point I would like to present some conclusions based on my analysis of this correspondence, thereby introducing the third volume of the series Correspondance de Johannes Hevelius to be published in 2019.
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Listy, uczeni, książki. Machinae coelestis pars posterior Jana Heweliusza z biblioteki Andreasa Müllera Greiffenhagiusa

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Borysowska A.
Biblioteka
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2020
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issue 24 (33)
71-99
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The Pomeranian Library (Książnica Pomorska) holds a number of ancient surviving editions of the works by the Gdańsk-based astronomer Johannes Hevelius (Jan Heweliusz) (1611–1687). One of the works, the Machina coelestis, is composed of two volumes and was published in the years 1673 and 1679, respectively. This article examines the second part of the Machina coelestis in more detail. As early as the eighteenth century, the volume was already considered by bibliographers to be extremely rare. Today, it is considered to be even more unique. The reason for this is due to the tragic fire that broke out in September 1679 and destroyed Hevelius’ house, his observatory with instruments, and his studio and the printing shop, where almost the entire printed editions of the work stored there perished in the flames. The value of the copy held at the Książnica Pomorska is additionally enhanced by the fact that the book had belonged in the past to the private library of the renowned seventeenth century orientalist, Andreas Müller Greiffenhagius (1630–1694), who died in Szczecin and left his book collection there. The author of the article also managed to examine the surviving correspondence between Müller and Hevelius, in which both writers discuss this particular book. In this way, the history of this interesting copy is thus complemented by contemporary commentaries from the epoch.
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W zbiorach Książnicy Pomorskiej zachowały się zabytkowe edycje prac gdańskiego astronoma Jana Heweliusza (1611–1687). Jedno z dzieł – Machina coelestis – składa się z dwóch tomów, które ukazały się w latach 1673 i 1679. Właśnie druga część tego dzieła została bliżej omówiona w artykule. Już XVIII-wieczni bibliografowie uznawali ją za białego kruka. Współcześnie uchodzi za jeszcze większy zabytek, a to za sprawą tragicznego pożaru, który wybuchł we wrześniu 1679 roku i zniszczył dom Heweliusza, jego obserwatorium z instrumentami, pracownię oraz drukarnię z niemal całym nakładem przechowywanego tam dzieła. Wartość egzemplarza Książnicy Pomorskiej podnosi dodatkowo fakt, że należał on w przeszłości do biblioteki znanego XVII-wiecznego orientalisty – Andreasa Müllera Greiffenhagiusa (1630–1694), który zmarł w Szczecinie i pozostawił tam swój księgozbiór. Autorce artykułu udało się ponadto dotrzeć do zachowanej korespondencji Müllera i Heweliusza, w której jest mowa o tej właśnie książce – historię ciekawego egzemplarza uzupełnia więc głos z epoki.
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“Peripheral” Astronomy in the Correspondence of Johannes Hevelius: A Case Study of Maria Cunitia and Elias von Löwen

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Włodarczyk J.
Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
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2019
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vol. 64
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issue 1
147–155
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The letters of Johannes Hevelius reveal a very interesting map of the European astronomy of the 17th century. Significantly, Hevelius was not only a key agent in the transmission of scientific information among the main centres which, for example, made Gdańsk equally important as London and Paris for early modern uranography. Hevelius also exchanged letters with astronomers whose achievements are hardly ever discussed within the framework of the general history of astronomy. And yet the analysis of their activities allows for the complete reconstruction of 17th century astronomy, including its diversification which stemmed from the tensions between tradition and modernity as well as from the specific research interests of minor scholars. One such case is Maria Cunitia (1610–1664) and her husband, Elias von Löwen (Crätschmair; c. 1602–1661) based in Silesia. Maria Cunitia is acknowledged for her Urania Propitia (1650), an innovative adaptation of the mathematical astronomy of Johannes Kepler’s Rudolphine Tables. In turn von Löwen authored astronomical calendars and ephemerids. Their correspondence with Hevelius – 22 letters from the years 1648–1654 – constitutes an important source of knowledge about the astronomical ‘background’ which allowed them to complete their published works as well as about the activities of such astronomers from outside the major scientific centres. It is my intention to discuss the astronomical content of these letters.
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