Jean D'Espagnet
Jean d'Espagnet (1564 – c. 1637) was a French Renaissance polymath. He was a lawyer and politician, a mathematician and alchemist, an antiquarian, poet and friend of French literati.[1]
D'Espagnet was a counsellor in the Parlement of Bordeaux and its president from the years 1600 to 1611.[2] In this position he was involved, with Pierre de Lancre, in witch-hunting in Labourd. D'Espagnet co-chaired De Lancre's 1609 repression, also congratulating his colleague on his job in the introduction to L'Incrédulité et mécréance du sortilège pleinement convaincues, besides condemning the Basque people, "this perverse people".[3]
Jean D'Espagnet is known to have owned several books that had previously formed part of Montaigne's library, including his copy of De rerum natura, in which his signature overwrites that of Montaigne's on the title-page.[4] In 1623, D'Espagnet wrote Arcanum Hermeticae philosophiae and Enchiridion physicae restitutae.[5]
His son, Étienne d'Espagnet, utilised his father's library and designed optics for astronomy.
Notes
- ^ Willard, Thomas (1998). Debus, Allen G.; Walton, Michael T. (eds.). "The Many Worlds of Jean D'Espagnet" in Reading the Book of Nature: The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, volume 41. Thomas Jefferson Press at Truman State University. p. 202. ISBN 9780940474475. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ "Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex (Montaigne.1.4.4)". Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ Williams, Gerhild Scholz (1999). Defining Dominion: The Discourses of Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern France and Germany. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-08619-1.
- ^ "Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex (Montaigne.1.4.4)". Cambridge Digital Library. p. [i]/image 9. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ Written in Latin; D'Espagnet is occasionally called Spagnetus. The publication was anonymous. The attribution dates back to the middle of the seventeenth century.
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