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First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The copy of A Letter to Peter du Moulin from which this facsimile
is taken is in the National Library of Scotland, pressmark
NG.1341.c.1(8). The first and only issue, it runs to 36 pages with
a title page and blank preliminary leaf, and cost sixpence; it is
coarsely and probably hurriedly printed, with an error on the title
page: to make sense of 'Prebendarie of the same Church, ' the
&c. after Casaubon's name should have been expanded to read
'and Prebendarie of Christ-Church, Canterbury.' An obliging
contemporary has annotated the copy with the names of those whom
Casaubon alludes to indirectly. There is no date in the pamphlet
other than on the title page, and the only evidence for a more
precise dating, in the absence of any ms. or notes for it, is in a
letter written by Casaubon to J.G. Graevius on July 19th, 1668,
from Cambridge. Casaubon and Graevius (1632-1703), Professor of
Politics, History and Eloquence in the University of Utrecht, were
accustomed to bewail the contemporary state of the republic of
letters in their correspondence, and on this occasion Casaubon
wrote: Prima mali labes a Philosophia Cartesiana, quae stultae
iuventuti et novitatis avidae bonos lade ad Experimenta ventum est,
in quibus nunc omnis eruditio, tibros excussit e manibus.
The copy of A Letter to Peter du Moulin from which this facsimile
is taken is in the National Library of Scotland, pressmark
NG.1341.c.1(8). The first and only issue, it runs to 36 pages with
a title page and blank preliminary leaf, and cost sixpence; it is
coarsely and probably hurriedly printed, with an error on the title
page: to make sense of 'Prebendarie of the same Church, ' the
&c. after Casaubon's name should have been expanded to read
'and Prebendarie of Christ-Church, Canterbury.' An obliging
contemporary has annotated the copy with the names of those whom
Casaubon alludes to indirectly. There is no date in the pamphlet
other than on the title page, and the only evidence for a more
precise dating, in the absence of any ms. or notes for it, is in a
letter written by Casaubon to J.G. Graevius on July 19th, 1668,
from Cambridge. Casaubon and Graevius (1632-1703), Professor of
Politics, History and Eloquence in the University of Utrecht, were
accustomed to bewail the contemporary state of the republic of
letters in their correspondence, and on this occasion Casaubon
wrote: Prima mali labes a Philosophia Cartesiana, quae stultae
iuventuti et novitatis avidae bonos lade ad Experimenta ventum est,
in quibus nunc omnis eruditio, tibros excussit e manibus.
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