‎(FABRI, H.)‎
‎Notæ in notas Willelmi Wendrockii Ad Ludovici Montaltii Litteras, et in disquisitiones Pauli Irenæi, Inustæ a Bernardo Stubrockio viennensi theologo.‎

‎Coloniæ, Apud Joannem Busæum, 1659. (16), 302 pp. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, label with shelfnumber (?) to spine, wrinkled. Sommervogel, vol. iii, p. 513, n. 11. Original edition of this rather scarce work. Honoré Fabri (Honoratus Fabrius; 15 April 1608 - 8 March 1688) was a French Jesuit theologian, mathematician, physicist and controversialist.He entered the Society of Jesus at Avignon, in 1626. For eight years he taught philosophy and for six years mathematics at the Jesuit college at Lyons, attracting many pupils. Called to Rome, he became the theologian of the court of the papal penitentiary in theVatican basilica, a position he held for thirty years. He was considered the first expert on Jansenism.Fabri was a highly respected scientist among his contemporaries. He was elected to the Accademia del Cimento in 1657, the year the Academy was founded, he became a life-long friend of Gassendi, with whom he had a long-lasting correspondence, Leibniz placed him with Galileo, Torricelli, Steno and Borelli for his work on elasticity and the theory of vibrations, and alone with Galileo for his efforts to 'rationalise experimental kinematics'. Mersenne rated him 'a veritable giant in science.' Fabri was the first of many famous professors produced by the Collège de la Trinité: his students included Pierre Mousnier, the mathematician François de Reynaud, Jean-Dominique Cassini; and Philippe de la Hire.Wendrockii and Irenæi are pseudonyms of P. Nicole, Montaltii is B. Pascal, Stubrockio is a pseudonym for Honoré Fabri. This work is a refutation of Pierre Nicole's Latin translation of Pascal's Lettres Provinciales, which had appeared in the previous year, 1658.- With bookplate on the front paste-down and a stamp on title, in the blank margin. ‎

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