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Title

Facsimile of LJS 201, Evangelista Torricelli letter to Marin Marsenne

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

3-20-2015

Files

Comments

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.

Keywords

Geometry--Early works to 1800, Mathematics--Early works to 1800, Optics--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts Latin--17th century, Manuscripts European

See More at Penn in Hand

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

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs201.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 201, Evangelista Torricelli letter to Marin Marsenne" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 202.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/202