JUŽNIČ, S. Subterranean Waters Described in Carniolan Letters Mailed to A. Kircher (- 1601; + 1680)

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SUBERRANEAN WAERS DESCRIBED IN CARNIOLAN LEERSMAILED O A. KIRCHER (* 1601; 1680)

PODZEMNE VODE V KRANJSKIH PISMIH POSLANIH A.

KIRCHERJU (* 1601; 1680)

Stanislav JUNI1

Izvleek UDK 551.44091:929Stanislav Juni: Podzemne vode v kranjskih pismih poslanih

A. Kircherju (* 1601; 1680)Prvi so obravnavana pisma, ki so ji Kircerju poiljali jezuitiin plemii povezani z obmoji sedanje Slovenije. Kircer je znjiovo pomojo sestavil eno prvi tetni teorij Cerknikega

jezera in objavil tevilna druga dognanja o krasu. Ugotovljeniso zbiralci Kircerjevi podatkov o Cerknikem jezeru in idri-

jskem rudniku, ki ju osebno ni obiskal. Pregledana so poroilajezuita Wilpenoerja, ki je skrbel za irjenje Kircerjevi delna Kranjskem. Opisana so pisma, ki ji je Kircerju poiljalJanez Vajkard urjaki, mecen Kircerjevi knjig, samosvoj pi-onir raziskovanja rib v globina Postojnske jame in Valvasorjev

vzornik.Kljune besede: Atanasius Kircer, Krito Wilpenoer,Janez Vajkard urjaki, Janez Vajkard Valvasor, zgodovina ra-

ziskovanja krasa, Cerkniko jezero, jezuiti.

1 Stanizlav Juni, Fara 2, 1336 Vas, [email protected]

Received/Prejeto: 04.09.2007

COBISS: 1.01

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Abstract UDC 551.44091:929Stanislav Juni: Subterranean waters described in Carniolan

letters mailed to A. Kircher (* 1601; 1680)Kircers letters connected wit te area o todays Sloveniawere analyzed. His Jesuit inormer Wilpenoers reports onte Cerknica Lake and Idrija Mine were put orward. He alsoelped distribution o Kircers books among Auerspergs andoter Ljubljana nobles. Janez Vajkard Auerspergs letters as anexample o ig nobility correspondent patronage were put atte limeligt in connection wit Janez and is admirer Valva-sors own researc o te Postojna Cave fora and auna.Keywords: Atanasius Kircer, Cristoporus Wilpenoer,Janez Vajkard Auersperg, Janez Vajkard Valvasor, History oKarst Researc, Cerknica Lake, Jesuits.

INRODUCION

Te baroque letters are important source or te istoryo science and karst in particular. In act, tey are some-times te only baroque sources available because at tosetimes te printed publications were not suc necessarypart o te researc as tey are nowadays. Kircers cor-

respondence kept at Roman Arcive o te PonticiaUniversit Gregoriana APUG contains 2291 letters o763 writers distributed at 14 olios. Almost one tirdo te correspondents were Jesuits. We knew some o

te letters contained inormation about Cerknica Lakewic Kircer never visited personally but nevertelessdescribed as one o its rst scientic researcers. We sus-pected tat e ad Carniolan inormers and te guessproved to be a true one. We examined all letters mailed

to Kircer rom Carniola or Gorica, and also te letterso people connected wit tose areas. We are appy toreport tat at least some success was obtained.


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KOBAV

ab. 1: Latin Kobavs letters mailed rom Vienna to KirchersRome (Gramatowski & Rebernik, 2001, 63).

Date APUG

January 1, 1640 567 f. 20r-21v

February 20, 1640 567 . 205rv

Our rst suspect was Cerknica native Andreas Ko-

bav (* November 7 or 11, 1593 Cerknica; joined Societatisjesu (SJ) October 22, 1610 Brno at Moravia; February12, 1654 rieste), one o te most talented Paul Guldins(Habakkuk, * 1577; 1643) students at Graz University.Afer is yout at native Notranjska, Kobav joined teFranciscans but soon canged is mind and became aJesuit. At least in 1652 e was a conessor at Ljubljana

College. Just ew monts beore deat e moved to ri-este College, probably stopping at Cerknica on is way.As te native o Cerknica e was certainly an expert orte Cerknica Lake penomena, but e did not describetem at is known letters mailed to Kircer. He raterexamined te properties o new comet paving te way oris ortcoming book.

CUZZIO

ab. 2: Italian letters o Giulio Cuzzio (Sj; 1688) mailed romGorica to Kirchers Rome (Gramatowski & Rebernik, 2001, 37,

131)

Date APUG

September 6, 1675 565 . 184rv

November 1, 1675 565 . 263rv

Besides Ljubljana also Jesuits rom Gorica or riesteCollege could ave inormed Kircer about te nearbyNotranjska limestone area penomena. Just two let-ters rom Gorica mailed to Kircer are kept at ApUG.Cuzzio wrote bot o tem in Italian language wit Latinappendix o is college rector. Among oter reports edescribed Jesuit visit to te Count orrismondo de laorres (Turn-Valsassina) castle Devin (Duino, ybein).He described te administrative curiosities and did nottake care o te limestone region imav River near Devinor Cerknica Lake.

WILPENHOFFERS CERKNICA LAKE REPOR

ab. 3: Wilenhoers Latin letters mailed to Kircher aferWilenhoers settlement at Lublana in 1653

Date APUG

October 24, 1658 567 . 111rv

October 23, 1669 559 . 95rv

November 28, 1669 559 . 50rv

Ljubljana Jesuit Cristoporus Wilpenoer(Krito Wilpenoer, Wilpenoer, Vilpenoer, Bilpen-oer, * February 1597 Radstadt on Enns at Salzburg; SJMarc 19, 1614 Brno; Marc 30, 1671 Ljubljana) stayedat Ljubljana between 1640-1641 and 1644-1648. At tattime e did not write to Kircer, wo was just beginningis ascent to ame. During is tird and nal stay at Lju-

bljana Wilpenoer mailed several letters to KircersRome (Gramatowski & Rebernik, 2001, 113, 136; Do-linar, 1976, 186). Tose documents are o greatest inter-est or tis study. At least one o Wilpenoers Ljubljanaletters went troug Venice and got a mark rancise oVenice.

Fig. 1: Wilenhoers October 24, 1658 letter with Kirchers addressand a mark o ranchise (ApUG 567 olio 111v). (Courtesy oStanord University and Glen Worthey).

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Fig. 2: Wilenhofer wrote to Kircher about Vol s coy o mundus,

Idria mine, and Cerknica Lake on October 24, 1658 (ApUG 567olio 111r). (Courtesy o Stanord University and Glen Worthey)

Wilpenoer was a novice at Brno. He studied pi-losopy and teology at Graz between 1616 and 1625.On June 29, 1635 e gave is ourt mobility vows, bute never lef is omeland or missions and stayed atHabsburg domains. In 1628 e taugt logic at Graz andbecame te Viennese College conessor 1629-1631. In1640 and 1641 e ad similar unction at Ljubljana Col-lege. Later e became superior at Varadin 1642-1643,preect at Ljubljana 1644-1648, and superior at Sopron

1649. In 1651 e was at Vienna and next year e be-came te conessor o Jaurin Raab bisop. He inormedKircer about Cerknica Lake penomena during is stayat Ljubljana College. He was an administrator, scribe(scritor), counsellor, and preect o te Ljubljana Jesuitcurc and stayed at Ljubljana almost or two decadesbetween 1653 and 1671 Lukcs, 1982, 789-790.

Wilpenoer listed te Carniolan local natural cu-riosities and Kircer in act used is report or is owndescription o Carniola. Wilpenoer took care or te

distribution o is Jesuit-ellow Kircers books amongCarniolans, mostly on demand o te Governor GeneralCount Vol Engelbert Auersperg. Immediately afer te

mundus Subterranei printing 1657 e reported on Oc-tober 24, 1658 tat te Count, our Governor wised toget te item. In act, Vols librarian and personal riendJanez Ludvik Scnleben * 1618 Ljubljana; SJ October28, 1635 Vienna-1654; 1681 marked Vols bookplateat is copy o te amous Kircers mundus Subterraneiduring te same year 1658. Somewat later Scnlebenbecame rater prolic researcer o Cerknica Lake and

publised is opinions just beore e died 1680-1681.He collected te library o is own and bequeated isbooks to te Ljubljana Jesuits at is last will.

Te readers also expected similar Kircers workmundus mediterranes because Kircer announced ewould publis it. It was never put at te limeligt, at leastnot under tat title. In act, te mundus mediterranescase seems to be a part o te very clever politics. Kircerpaved is road to ame by adding index o is publisedand would-be publised books at te end o is earlyworks. Several o tem were never printed, but readers

Fig. 3: Wilenhofer writes to Kircher on October 23, 1669(ApUG 567 olio 95r). (Courtesy o Stanord University and GlenWorthey)

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expected tem anyway. Just by reading te titles and de-scriptions o is planned works everybody was won-dering ow clever and erudite man Kircer must be. TeBaroque autors actually knew very well ow to sell teirbooks and we could learn a lot rom teir examples.

In addition Wilpenoer brougt previously un-

known acts about karst to Kircers attention. InmundusKircer did not mention Idrija Mine or Cerknica Lakeyet, altoug at te paragrap Aline hydraulice de-scribed waters at Alps region wit silver and oter min-erals beneat te mountains (Kircer, 1657, 185-186). Hecareully described Danube River (Kircer, 1657, 162)and properties o quicksilver (Kircer, 1657, 202) butailed to mention amous Idria mercury mine.

Wilpenoer reported on te mercury mine wit-out mentioning te city o Idrija. He also described te

vein o ossil silver and cited te Jesuit Casatis workconnected wit mining. Wilpenoer put special con-

cern on te lake near te town named Cerknica. Telake altogeter sank to enable plouging o te driedelds and even unting. Afer a wile te lake reappearedagain and ooded te elds wit te water and s, ac-cording to Wilpenoers report.

Eleven years later on October 23, 1669 Wilpeno-er again wrote rom Ljubljana to Kircers Rome witoutmentioning any karst penomena. A week later e wrotea new letter (November 28, 1669) wit last lines some-wat compressed to t te single page. He mentionedtwo parts o KircersArs magna sciendi seu cobinatori-ca under te sortened titleArs cobinatorica. Tat book

again pleased very muc te Count is Eminence LandGovernor Vol Auersperg. In te meanwile Vol waspromoted to a iger status o emperors secret counsel-lor (1660) and consequently got te prestigious title isEminence (Mol, 1937, 50). Vol certainly got KircersbookArs cobinatorica too, and Scnleben selved itat te class o linguistics. Certainly, te words o tebaroque times did not always ave te meaning we as-cribe to tem today. At te ront page bookplates o treeoter Kircers books Scnleben wrote a note: autors(Kircers) present.Ars cobinatorica andmundus Sub-terranei were not among tem. Vol certainly ave to buy

some o is books as ad all ordinary mortals, even i ewas te Carniolan Governor.Kircer continued Frisclins researc o Carniola

subterranean waters (Habe, Kranjc, 1981, 20-21; Koroec,1967, 12) witout ever seeing te penomena e de-scribed. Kircers museum at Rome was in act te Jesuitcollection o all world curiosities and Carniolan ones justt tere. Already beore Wilpenoers notes Kircerreceived some oter inormation about Carniolan pe-culiarities ocusing on Idrija Mercury Mine. Kircersinormer was very young Klagenurt Jesuit Sigismond

Siserius (* May 1, 1636 Klagenurt; SJ; December 29,1693 Vienna). Kircer publised Siserius letters as ewas used to do wit oter ellow Jesuits reports, altouge eventually did not care to publis Wilpenoers con-tributions. Siserius work was put at te limeligt as teappendix o rst edition o Kircers subterranean bookunder te title Eistola ad R.p. Kircheru, in qua hydriasive odina argenti vivi in Carniola describitur (Kircer,1657, 2: 173). Wilpenoer certainly read te item at Au-

erspergs Ljubljana library and decided to improve Kirc-ers understanding o te penomena wit is own IdrijaMine and Cerknica Lake descriptions. Kircer eventuallyused te new data acquired rom Wilpenoers letter orismundus Subterraneus (Kircer, 1678, book 9, part 2,paragrap 7).

From te early little booklet later publised as teaddenda to Kircers outer space trip, te tird printingomundus (1678) wit Cerknica Lake description avegrown up to nearly tousand pages o te great olioormat. Its weigt is almost 5 kg! Te book was not just

Fig.4: Wilenhofer reorts to Kircher about Vol s exciteentwhile reading his Ars cobinatorica on Noveber 28, 1669

(ApUG 559 olio 50r). (Courtesy o Stanord University and GlenWorthey)

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eavy, it was considered to be te most important cavesand underground waters baroque researc. Kircer putat te limeligt early description o te caves Antiparosat te middle o Greek Kiklads Kyklads Islands sout-east o Atens, Gar Kebir o Tunis, Dracenle nearMixnitz souteast o Styrian Bruck on Mur River, and,

least but not last, te Cerknica Lake. He ounded temodern ydrology o karst and connected te subterra-nean springs wit seas and precipitations.

In 1669 Englisman Edward Brown * 1642; 1708continued Kircers Cerknica Lake researc on beal ote London Royal Society. Browns mistakes stimulatedte development o Valvasors own opinions and ideascrowned wit Valvasors ambitious ellection at te sameRoyal Society as its rst and so ar te only ellow romCarniola on December 14, 1687. Former Jesuit Scnle-ben and Valvasor modied Kircers explanation o uddsValvasor, 1689, 1: 626, 630, and Valvasor bougt almost

all Kircers works including mundus. During Kircerslietime E.G. Kappelius 1672, 1685 described CerknicaLake s and elds at Hamburg Journal Koroec, 1967,13 and paved te way or te researc o local autori-ties, namely te Prince Janez Vajkard Auersperg.

JANEZ VAJKARD AUERSPERG

Tab. 4: Count, later prince janez Vakard Auersergs lettersailed to Kircher

Date Place APUG

May 30, 1651 Vienna 556 f. 214r, 215v

February 9, 1654 Regensburg 556 f. 212r, 213v

October 27, 1655 Vienna 556 f. 204r, 205v

May 3, 1661 Vienna 562 f. 26rv

November 12, 1665 Vienna 555 f. 212r1,v1, 213v1

April 23, 1671 Ljubljana 565 f. 70rv, 70av

Janez Vajkard Auersperg, is older broter Vol En-gelbert, and teir protg Valvasor were among te mosterudite Carniolans. Six Janez Vajkard Auerspergs letters

to Kircer were preserved atApUG. In rst letters Janezensured is patronage and eventually also payment oKircers usually very expensive books. Kircer dedicateda part o is Oedius to Janez, wo was just promoted tote rank o Prince Kircer, 1654, 139. Janez mailed telast preserved letter to Kircer rom Ljubljana on April23, 1671, more tan a year afer e was dismissed romis igest positions at Viennese Court on December 10,1669.

On July 3, 1669 te Prince Janez Vajkard Auerspergbougt te Prince Janez Anton Eggenbergs Notranjs-

ka manors Snenik and Lo and also took over Posto-jna manor. Probably e expected te Viennese troubles

Fig. 5: Kircher dedicates 110 ages o the Oedius second artourth section to Lublana prince janez Vakard Auerserg(Kircher, 1654, 139).

Fig. 6: prince janez Vakard Auerserg writes to Kircher roLublana on Aril 23, 1671, frst age (ApUG 556 olio 70r(courtesy o Stanord University and Glen Worthey)).

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would orce im to return to is native Carniola ewmonts later.

Te Prince Janez Vajkard Auersperg was aware o teLeyden Proessor Pilippus Cluverius (Cluverij, * 1580Danzig; 1622) description o Postojna Cave (1623) as abig cave wit noisy river at ollow ill near Ljubljana.

Janez broter Vol ad at least our Cluverius items atrst or early editions (1619, 1624, 1631, and 1653) boundinto tree volumes. Five Cluverius works were on saleat Ljubljana and Valvasor eventually bougt all o temor is Bogenperg library (Sotebys, 1982, 30-31; Mayr,1678, 7172; Valvasor & Magi, 1995, 219-220).

Soon afer is last letter mailed to Kircer, te PrinceJanez Vajkard Auersperg used ropes to descend one o ispeasants-sermen beneat one oot tick Postojna Cavenatural bridge (1673). Janez ownersip o te Postoj-na area stimulated is curiosity wic culminated aferreading Culverius and Kircers books e inerited rom

is recently deceased broter Vol. Janez became one ote rst systematic researcers o Postojna Cave subter-ranean ora and auna. Kircer would certainly love toread is results, but no Janez letters eventually writtenafer 1671 were preserved.

Just beore Kircer died, Valvasor (1679) tried toupgrade te discoveries o is model Prince Janez, but ewas eventually not quite successul. Valvasor discoveredte Auerspergs subject-serman wo ormerly brougtsome s rom subterranean o Postojna Cave. Te poorold ellow was still alive and in pretty good ealt. But ewas certainly not very cooperative being still somewat

rigtened by te gost e seems to ave met at te darkPostojna Cave underground (Reisp, 1983, 144; Kova Ar-temis, 2005, 72; Valvasor, 1689, 1/4: 532).

Fig. 7: prince janezVakard Auersergssubect-shermanexamines postonaCave subterraneanfora and auna on

the rst lannedexedition o its kindin 1673 (Valvasor,1689, 1/4: 532).

CONCLUSION

Te Jesuits rom Carniola inormed Kircer about teCerknica Lake karst penomena. Kircer was consideredan expert in several elds, but e did not widely travelafer is young years. His books were in act te com-pilation o letters e received rom is ellow Jesuits allover te world, and wit tat in mind we claimed tat

te Carniolian Jesuits were partly te autors o Kircersbooks describing Carniola local subterranean limestoneregions. Kircer became well aware o te local peculi-arities, corresponded wit te igest Carniolan nobility,and eventually stimulated te Auerspergs subterraneankarst auna researc programme.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENS

Tis researc was carried out in te rame o te pro-gramme Te Pysics Books and Manuscripts in Car-niolan Libraries beore Napoleonic Wars ounded by te

Mellon ellowsip o te Oklaoma University History oScience Department in 2007. We tank acad. Dr. AndrejKranjc or constructive advices.

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POVZETEKPisma, ki so ji Kircerju poiljali jezuiti in plemii zobmoja sedanje Slovenije, so prvorazredni zgodovinskidokumenti. Znano je, da Kircer nai krajev osebnoni obiskal; prav logino se zdi, da je moral imeti v Cer-knici obveevalce, ki so mu pripovedovali o notranjskikraki pojavi. e dolgo nas zanima, kdo bi utegnilibiti ti ljudje, kateri pisma je Kircer vtkal v svoje opisekrakega podzemlja. V potev je kazalo vzeti predvsemljubljanske, gorike in trake jezuite. In res, prav zljubljanskega kolegija je Kircer dobival potrebne po-datke o notranjskem krasu.

Kircer je s pomojo Kranjski dopisnikov sestavilprvo upotevanja vredno teorijo Cerknikega jezera po N.Frisclinovi pesnitva in objavil tevilna druga dogna-nja. Med najbolj uglednimi zbiralci podatkov za Kircerja

je bil njegov sobrat Wilpenofer, tisti as pomembenjezuit ljubljanskega kolegija. Salzburan Wilpenofer

se je dodobra seznanil z nenavadnimi krakimi pojavi oCerknikem jezeru, zanimal pa ga je tudi rudnik ivegasrebra v Idriji kot tedaj najdonosneje kranjsko podje-tje. Zato smo pregledali poroila in ivljenjsko pot je-zuita Wilpenoferja, ki je obenem skrbel e za irjenjeKircerjevi del na Kranjskem, predvsem po eljadeelnega glavarja Vola Engelberta Turjakega.

Volov brat Janez Vajkard Turjaki, mecen Kircerje-vi knjig in zelo samosvoj pionir raziskovanja rib v glo-bina Postojnske jame, je poiljal Kircerju pomembnapisma. Med prvimi je organiziral ekspedicijo s potrebnoopremo, da je lako dal na plan privlei ribe iz podzem-ni voda; le-te so se resda izkazale za nekoliko mravein komajda vredne knejega obeda. Zaenkrat e ne vemona kaken nain je o tem obvestil svojega dopisovalcaKircerja. Janezova postojnska raziskovanja je nadaljevalValvasor. Kupil je domala vsa Kircerjeva dela, ki ji jezaradi denarni teav pozneje prodal v Zagreb.

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