{15a} Mydorge (Descartes’s friend;
conic sections; optics)
i 16 Montaigne’s daughter
(17) Maurice of Nassau (Dutch
general)
i (17a) Huygens family
18 van Helmont (Louvain,
medicine, Paracelsian
chemistry)
19 da Costa (Acosta) (Jew, st.
Coimbra, fled to Amsterdam;
religion as human creation)
{20} Cavalieri (Milan, Jesuit;
calculus)
1635
{21} Torricelli (Rome, Florence;
math, physics)
{22} Viviani (barometer)
(23) Haak (London agent of
Palatine Elector; sci
correspondence)
(24) Hartlib (Silesia merchant,
London; sci correspondence)
{25} Pell (Cambridge, London,
Holland; math)
(26) Palatine Elector
27 Bisterfeld (Heidelberg,
Leipzig, diplomat; church
reunification)
{28} Roberval (Paris, math)
{29} Desargues (math)
{30} Fermat (Toulouse)
31 La Peyrère (Bordeaux, Paris,
Amsterdam; pre-Adamite)
32 La Mothe de Vayer
(skepticism basis of
Christianity; led Libertins
Érudits)
33 Naudé
34 Patin
(35) Corneille
(36) Molière
37 Cyrano de Bergerac
(freethinker, satirist)
38 Jungius (medical doctor, st.
Padua; “Hamburg logic”)
i 39 Grotius’s son
40 Erhard Weigel (Leipzig;
taught ethics geometrically)
i 41 Jakob Thomasius (father of
Christian Thomasius)
42 Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel
(Spain; Jew, Amsterdam
printer; predicted messianic
age)
43 Ribera (Amsterdam Jew,
excommunicated w Spinoza)
44 Boreil (hosted Amsterdam
Jewish/interdenominational
circle)
45 Fisher (Amsterdam Quaker)
46 Nicole (Port-Royal logic;
Jansenist polemic)
47 La Rochefoucauld
48 Mme. Sablé (collab. with La
Rochefoucauld)
49 Jacques Esprit (same)
{50} Ent (medical doctor, Padua,
London; defended circulation
of blood)
{51} Glisson (Cambridge, med.)
(52) First Earl Shaftesbury
(53) Oldenburg (Bremen, England,
correspondence)
{54} Wilkins (London chaplain to
Elector Palatine; Oxford
meetings became Invisible
College)
{55} Wallis (geom, Oxford)
{56} Wren (Oxford, astron,
Gresham College; geom)
{57} Hooke (Oxford, Royal
Society curator)
{58} Petty (Oxford, hosted
Invisible College; professor of
anatomy)Keys to Figures • 941