Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647

Other related names

• Mersenne, Marin, 1588-1648, recipient
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5968339
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5968339

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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.

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Support

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Mathematics--Early works to 1800
• Optics--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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