Penman Leigh T I
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Level 5, Forgan Smith Building, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia.
Notes Rec R Soc Lond. 2015 Dec 20;69(4):361-372. doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2014.0055. Epub 2015 May 13.
This paper discloses the content of a previously overlooked epistle by the Anglo-Prussian intelligencer Samuel Hartlib to Henry More concerning the death of René Descartes. After a discussion situating the letter within the sequence of the More-Hartlib correspondence, an analysis of the rhetorical structure of the epistle is offered, followed by a brief assessment of Hartlib's attitude towards Descartes, and the identification of his source concerning the news of the philosopher's death. An account of the transmission of the letter via a nineteenth-century periodical is also provided. The text of Hartlib's letter and an overlooked passage of Hartlib's diary concerning Descartes's death, which draws on the content of the More letter, are presented as appendixes.
本文披露了英裔普鲁士情报员塞缪尔·哈特利布写给亨利·莫尔的一封关于勒内·笛卡尔之死的书信内容，这封信此前一直被忽视。在讨论了这封信在莫尔与哈特利布通信序列中的位置之后，对该书信的修辞结构进行了分析，接着简要评估了哈特利布对笛卡尔的态度，以及他关于这位哲学家去世消息的来源。还介绍了这封信通过一份19世纪期刊传播的情况。哈特利布信件的文本以及哈特利布日记中一段被忽视的关于笛卡尔之死的文字（该文字借鉴了莫尔信件的内容）作为附录呈现。
