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Following the title of Johannes Bosscha’s essay (1907): “Simon Marius. Réhabilitation d’un astronome calomnié,” the word “rehabilitation” is often used in studies about the astronomer Simon Marius (1573–1624). Having studied the original essays by Bosscha and his colleague Jean Oudemans and having examined the file with correspondence and calculations surrounding the original prize question that became the occasion for their essays, we want to make some general comments about this aspect of Marius studies.
This note is a comment on the section “Rehabilitation” in Pierre Leich’s paper, “Priorität, Rezeption und Rehabilitation von Simon Marius,” Simon Marius und seine Forschung ed. H. Gaab and P. Leich (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2016), pp. 407–439, at 421–428 = “Priority, Reception and Rehabilitation of Simon Marius—From the Accusation of Plagiarism to the Marius Portal as his Virtual Collected Works” in this edition.
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Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem: archive no. 444 (Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen), inv. no. 455; idem, archive no. 720 (personal papers of Professor Johannes Bosscha, 1831–1911), inv. nos. 33, 35, 48–53, 64–64, 68–71. See also Bruijn 1977.
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Van Helden, A., Zuidervaart, H. (2018). A Word of Caution About the “Rehabilitation” of Simon Marius. In: Gaab, H., Leich, P. (eds) Simon Marius and His Research. Historical & Cultural Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92621-6_16
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