Erycius Puteanus
Erycius Puteanus (4 November 1574 – 17 September 1646) was a humanist and philologist from the Low Countries.
Name
Erycius Puteanus is a
Life
He was born in
In 1597 he travelled to Italy and met scholars, especially Cardinal
He taught at the Collegium Trilingue at the
He fathered 17 children, and died in Leuven.
Work
Puteanus was an encyclopedist; in one period of his literary activity (1603–19), he detached himself from Lipsius by aiming at personal leadership of a school. He then went back to
Among his more than 90 works is a treatise on music, Modulata Pallas, which also appeared in four later substantially altered adaptations. One of these is Iter Nonianum, which was a comprehensive scholarly study of music theory. One distinctive feature is his extension of the Guidonian hexachord (ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la) with a seventh note bi, accompanied by a justifying cosmological and numerological emphasis on the number seven.[1]
Puteanus provided advice about naming features on the first telescopic lunar map produced by his friend Michael van Langren (1598-1675).[2] Van Langren named two features after him, the Aestuaria Bamelrodia and the crater Puteani.
Editions
For the history of the numerous writings and editions of Erycius Puteanus see
- Roersch and Vanderhaegen in Bibliotheca Belgica (1904-5), nos. 166, 167, 168, 171
- Alphonse Roersch in Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 18 (1904), coll. 329–344.
- Simar, Etude sur Erycius Puteanus (Louvain, 1909)
- Saverio Campanini, Die Diatriba de anagrammatismo des Erycius Puteanus. Schöpfung und Erschöpfung einer barocken Leidenschaft, in A. Eusterschulte – W.-M. Stock (Hrsg.), Zur Erscheinung kommen. Bildlichkeit als theoretischer Prozess, Sonderheft der "Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft" 14, Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 2016, pp. 65–79
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
- ^ Peter van der Krogt & Ferjan Ormeling,"Michiel Florent van Langren and Lunar Naming.", Actes del XXIV Congrés Internacional d'ICOS. Annex. Pp. 1851-1868. 2014.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Erycius Puteanus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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