Next come forty-four regular communications delivered by attendees at the congress: "Les Poemata de
Johannes Fabricius Montanus: un Enchiridion vatis Christiani?" by David Amherdt; "Les implications politiques d'Otto Vaenius dans les Pays-Bas," by Nathalie de Breze; "EAegidius di Giovanni Pontano: l'approdo religioso di un uomo politico," by Anna Gioia Cantore; "Huellas del Petrarca Latino en la Corona de Aragon entre 1470 y 1520: el caso del Petrarca moral y religioso," by Alejandro Coroleu; "Lexicographie latine et religion autochtone in Nouvelle-France: a propos de la Radicum montanarum silva (1766-1772) du P.
Ziegenbalg went on to write other works in German explaining Hinduism to Europeans, notably Malabarisches Heidenthum (1711) and Genealogia der malabarischen Gotter (1713), and, in Tamil, works of apologetics and a translation of the Bible, unfinished at his death in 1719, revised (and superseded) by the translation of
Johannes Fabricius.
Sunspots observed by
Johannes Fabricius on February 27 and by Christopher Scheiner in November.
In spite of its limitations, this book is based on admirable archival work, especially in personal records and diaries; it well complements other recent studies of disease in the early modern period, such as those by Greg Bentley and
Johannes Fabricius on syphilis.
