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  • Peiresc left a large body of papers that made no reference to the Brief Discours.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Peiresc left a large body of papers that made no reference to the Brief Discours.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Pieresc, Nicolas-Claude de Babri, seigneur de Peiresc.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Pieresc, Nicolas-Claude de Babri, seigneur de Peiresc.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Thereafter he began a formative partnership in physiological, astronomical, and historical studies with the wise and wealthy Peiresc, summarized in Gassendi's glowing biography written upon Peiresc's death in 1637.

    Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

  • Further, in his work with Peiresc, Gassendi tackled the problem of determining longitude by reference to lunar eclipses, later working towards this goal with Claude Mellan on the first effort to chart the moon.

    Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

  • What troubled Gassendi and Peiresc, however, was the notion that such an image as cast upon the retina would be inverted, leaving the problem of identifying how we see the world as right-side up.

    Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

  • In 1653, writing to Peiresc, Mersenne proposed an academy which, founded on the ideal of cooperation among the wise, should gather together all the learned of Europe.

    BACONIANISM PAOLO ROSSI 1968

  • Peiresc, whose magnificent collections aroused in Kircher the highest interest.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Egyptian riddle, Peiresc applied direct to Rome and to the General of the Jesuits to have Kircher's call to Vienna by the emperor set aside and to procure a summons for the scholar to the Eternal City.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

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