VMs: Re: FW: Barachia

[Dana Scott <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

And note too that the Stanford web site references

Peter Miller (University of Maryland, College Park), "Kircher, Peiresc
and the Foundation of Coptic Studies. Or, The Quest for Barachias
Nephi"

Regards,
Dana Scott

Luis Vélez wrote:

> >
> > Perhaps we should ask Peter Miller about Barachias Nephi:
> >
> > http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/baroqueprogram.html
>
> >From the University of Maryland website"
>
>  Professor Miller's most recent work, "Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue
> in the Seventeenth Century" (forthcoming from Yale University Press),
> explores the role of the scholar as the exemplar of virtue, and tries to
> understand the meaning of this virtue through a biography of the famous
> early seventeenth-century Provençal antiquary Fabri de Peiresc.