Marci, was Re: VMs: Photostat Machines

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jan,

> According to my last posting about Marci, he was
> losing his eyesight and
> went at the end completely blind. That would suggest
> he could not write his letter
> to Kircher himself, but apparently he did. I wrote
> to Lanskroun website, where I
> got that information, asking them if they knew
> specifically when did he go blind,
> since that may fix the year of the letter: 1665 or
> 1666 (he died 16th of April 1667).  
> It may certainly explain why he sent the VM to
> Kircher, as he wrote, "shortly" after he inherited
> it.

The year can be decided from the Kinner letter to
Kircher, and I think that the conclusion was 1666.
Whether Marci sent the VMs as soon as he got it,
or _intended_ to send it as soon as he got it, is
not clear to me from the Marci letter, but we 
know that Baresch died before 1662 (or in that
year).

The last stages or Marci's life are quite a mystery,
as he hs been reported to  have joined the Jesuit
order after having been at odds with the Jesuits
most of his life, and in the later stages in
particular
with one Jesuit whose name was, IIRC, Oliva.
The source for this is the 'Littera Annua' of the 
Jesuits, for which it would be extremely interesting
if you have Prague contacts who have access to
such sources.

Cheers, Rene




		
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