[Athena] Fwd: Pursuing Adrien Auzout

[DEMEULENAERE Christiane <christiane.demeulenaere AT culture.gouv.fr>]

-------- Message original -------- Sujet: Pursuing Adrien Auzout Date : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:46:48 +0000 De : H-France <h-france AT lists.uakron.edu> Répondre à : h-france AT lists.uakron.edu Pour : h-france AT lists.uakron.edu <h-france AT lists.uakron.edu>

From: Ron Jelaco [mailto:ronjelaco AT mac.com]

Hello All, bonjour à tous,

A few months ago I solicited your help in my curiosities about the French astronomer and polymath Adrien Auzout (1622 Rouen - 1691 Rome).  Alas, information about Auzout appears to be very thin, but I now know a bit more about him that might open up more possibilities.

 

Historians generally believe that the entirety of Auzout's works was lost.  But in letters between Thévenot and Leibniz I have learned that Auzout's archives were entrusted to the Prince Borghese in Rome in 1691, who gave them to the Abbé Francesco Nazzari (Nazari in the Leibniz letters) with the intent to have them published.  Of particular importance to Leibniz and Thévenot was the wellbeing of of Auzout's [unfinished?] translation of Vitruvius and his biography of Frontinus.  Nazzari was a Roman savant and publisher who had been the editor of the Giornale de'Letterati de Roma (1668-1679).  Nazzari died in 1714, and there seems to be no sign that he ever published any of Auzout's works.

 

So, I'm wondering if any of you might know anything of the Abbé Francesco Nazzari and whereabouts of his archives, or if you might know of a similar historians' list that might be focusing on Roman history?  Of course I appreciate your help very much.

 

Ron J.

 

 

RON JELACO

MCGILL UNIVERSITY

School of Architecture

History and Theory

ron.jelaco AT mail.mcgill.ca

 

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