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Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophical Letters

April 13, 2021 by Stewart Duncan

(It’s been rather quiet around here for a long time, but perhaps some people still have this site in their RSS readers.)

Thanks to a very helpful email from Jonathan Shaheen, I just updated The Letters in the Philosophical Letters, my page that tries to say what each of the many letters is about. PL 4.23 refers, I learn, to Constantijn Huygens. As the page now says:

Number: 4.23
Topic: On assorted further questions
Reference: Includes a reference to a Mr V.Z. and his questions “concerning those glasses, one of which being held close in ones hand, and a little piece being broke of its tail, makes as great a noise as the discharging of a Gun”. Mr V.Z. here is Constantijn Huygens. One of the two letters from him to Cavendish that were published in Cavendish (1676) is on this topic (Cavendish 1676, 119-20). As published, that letter is signed “Huygens de Zulichem”; “V.Z.” would be “van Zuilichem”. Constantijn Huygens had bought the lordship of Zuilichem, and thus became the heer van Zuilichem. (Thanks to Jonathan Shaheen, who figured this reference out.)

Speaking of the Philosophical Letters, I see that Hackett are going to publish an abridged edition, edited by Deborah Boyle, in August 2021. And examination copies are free (rather than merely cheap) if you order them in April.

[Post is updated from the original—see the comments.]

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  1. on April 13, 2021 at 11:29 am Jonathan Shaheen

    My email could have been more helpful: I might have gotten the right Huygens! V.Z. is van Zuilichem and van Zuilichem is Huygens. But the Christiaan part I just misremembered.

    Anne Thell’s edition of Grounds of Natural Philosophy includes some of the letters, complete with the “Huygens de Zulichem” signature, and she identifies the author of the letters as Constantijn, not Christiaan. (h/t Eric Schliesser for asking me about this.)


  2. on April 13, 2021 at 11:45 am Stewart Duncan

    Thanks to you and Eric!

    I updated the page, and the quote in the post above.



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