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Title

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli letters to Dionigi Guerrini

Authors

• Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, 1608-1679

Other related names

• Guerrini, Dionigi, recipient
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 200
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5006526
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5006526

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Summary

26 signed letters in a cursive script to Dionigi Guerrini, quartermaster-general of Ferdinand II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in which Borelli discusses the progress of his works Lettera del movimenti della cometa apparsa il mese di dicembre del 1664 (1665), Theoricae mediceorum planetarum (1666), and De vi percussionis (1667). He also mentions the astronomer Galileo Galilei and the astronomer-physicist Evangelista Torricelli. 21 letters are written on bifolia, with the remaining 5 written on single leaves, with a variety of watermarks. 18 of the letters are written from Pisa (letters 1-12, 17 November 1664-2 April 1666; letters 19-24, 22 December 1666-27 May 1667), 6 are written from Poggio Adorno or Villa (letters 13-18, 28 November-19 December 1666), the latest letter is written from Naples (letter 26, 21 June 1667), and one letter has no date or place of writing (letter 25). Some of the letters have remnants of seals and are addressed to Guerrini in Florence or Poggio Adorno.

Extent

26

Support

Paper.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps.
   
• Appear in a William H. Robinson Ltd. catalog (1945), and in H. P. Kraus's cat. 155 (1980), no. 32, and cat. 186 (1991), no. 18.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 31.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Comets--Early works to 1800
• Physics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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