Elzevir
The
Elzevir family were booksellers and publishers in the
Netherlands in the
seventeenth century. As publishers of new work by Descartes,
Galileo, and
Grotius, they were part of the reason for
Bertrand Russell's comment that it "is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Holland in the seventeenth century, as the one country where there was freedom of speculation."
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