The correspondence with Stanisław Lubieniecki (1623–1675) is the fourth most voluminous in the corpus of letters of Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687) – there are over ninety letters they wrote to each other between 1664 and 1673. Their positions in the learned world, however, were very unequal. Hevelius was a reputed astronomer and a fellow of the Royal Society, while Lubieniecki was an amateur interested in comets and astronomy. In this paper, I present the goals they have in this correspondence and the ways in which they tried to achieve them, and I try to explain why their correspondence was so numerous and long-lasting.
The aim of the article is to compare two versions of Christian aristotelism in cosmology: that of Aquinas and of Benedict Chmielowski. The author points to the historiosophic message provided by the long history of this philosophy in Europe. Reflections of the author are the source and inspiration for a general reflection. Both scholars have explained the world in the light of tradition, although they have been dealing with new theoretical ideas in cosmology.
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