Baresch

[ReneZ]

So well, I wonder what your opinions are about Baresch and his letter. Does anyone know if a scan of this letter exists somewhere?
Also, is anything else known about Baresch that might help us?

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The books owned by Barschius were inherited by Marci. Marci's books were inherited by one of his sons, and after that they have been lost. (Note that Marci's last will has been published but only in Latin and Czech).
Presumably, in the same way all letters from Kircher to Marci were lost.

The Czech national library doesn't have a copy of the German Herbarius (at least that I could find). They have another early printed herbal by Von Cube, but it has no notes or annotations from Barschius in it.

It would have been of interest to check the notebooks of Moretus around the time that he sent his earlier letter to Kircher (with the first contribution from Barschius) but that part is missing. There are three volumes, which do not include this particular time span (source: Georg Schuppener: Theodor Moretus (1602–1667) – ein Prager Jesuiten-Mathematiker. In: Cemus, Petronilla (Hrsg.): Bohemia Jesuitica 1556–2006. Bd. 2. Prag/Würzburg 2010 (Nakladatelství Karolinum/Echter Verlag), S. 661–675).