Jan van der Heyden: View ofOudezijds Voorburgwal with theOude Kerk in Amsterdam, 1670.Bierkaai (beer quay) where Meyer was born in 1629(Anonymous, Lodewijk Meijer):Philosophia S. Scripturae interpres, "1674". Published in one book together (convolute) with Benedictus de Spinoza's here also anonymousTractatus theologico-politicus. Added in handwriting: "Benedicto de Spinosâ".Lodewijk Meyer:De materia, ejusque affectionibus motu, et quiete, dissertation Leiden University, 1660
Lodewijk Meyer (alsoMeijer) (bapt. 18 October 1629,Amsterdam – buried 25 November 1681, Amsterdam) was aDutch physician, classical scholar, translator,lexicographer, andplaywright. He was a radical intellectual and one of the more prominent members of the circle around the philosopherBenedictus de Spinoza.[1][2]
He is generally considered the author of an anonymous work, thePhilosophia S. Scripturae Interpres, although there are indications that his friendJohannes Bouwmeester may have been the co-author or even the author.[3] It was initially attributed to Spinoza, and caused a furor among preachers and theologians, with its claims that theBible was in many places opaque and ambiguous; and that philosophy was the only criterion for interpretation of cruxes in such passages. Just after the death of Meyer his friends revealed that he was the author of the work, which had been banned by theCourt of Holland together with Spinoza'sTractatus Theologico-Politicus in 1674.[4][5]
translated:The Principles of Cartesian Philosophy and Metaphysical Thoughts by Baruch Spinoza contains Meyer's Preface and also hisInaugural Dissertation on Matter (1660). It is translated by Samuel Shirley and published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1998,ISBN0-87220-400-6.
1664 withBenedictus de Spinoza andPieter Balling (in Dutch):Renatus Des Cartes Beginzelen der wysbegeerte, I en II deel, na de meetkonstige wijze beweezen door Benedictus de Spinoza ... : mitsgaders des zelfs overnatuurkundige gedachten, in welke de zwaarste geschillen ..., kortelijk werden verklaart, Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz. boekverk. in de Dirk van Assensteegh, in 't Martelaars-boek, 1664. (With Meyer's Preface.)
1666:
with Benedictus de Spinoza (in Latin):Philosophia S. Scripturæ interpres : exercitatio paradoxa, in quâ, veram philosophiam infallibilem S. Literas interpretandi normam esse, apodicticè demonstratur, & discrepantes ab hâc sententiæ expenduntur, ac refelluntur ..., Eleutheropoli [= (Grieks) "Freetown"]: unknown publisher, 1666.
translated:Lodewijk Meyer (2005).Philosophy as the interpreter of Holy Scripture (1666). Marquette Studies in Philosophy. Vol. 43. Translated by Samuel Shirley. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press.ISBN0874626668. translation ofPhilosophia S. Scripturae Interpres
1668 (in Dutch):L. Meijers Ghulde vlies : treurspel, Amsterdam: Jacob Lescailje, 1668
1669 (in Dutch):L. Meijers woordenschat, : in drie deelen ghescheiden, van welke het I. bastaardtwoorden, II. konstwoorden, III. verouderde woorden beghrijpt., Amsterdam: weduwe van Jan Hendriksz. Boom, 1669
1688 (in Dutch):L. Meijers woordenschat : verdeelt in 1. Bastaardt-woorden. 2. Konst-woorden. 3. Verouderde woorden., Amsterdam: Jeronimus Ratelband, 1688?, 1745
1677, translation by Meyer of Antoine Le Métel d'Ouville (in Dutch):Het spookend weeuwtje, blyspél, Amsterdam: Albert Magnus, 1677
1678, translation by Meyer ofJean Racine (in Dutch):Andromaché. Treurspel., Amsterdam: Izaak Duim, bezuiden het Stadhuis, 1678(?), 1744.
^Mertens, Frank (2017-01-01), "Van den Enden and Religion", in Lavaert, Sonja; Schröder, Winfried (eds.),The Dutch Legacy: Radical Thinkers of the 17th Century and the Enlightenment, BRILL, pp. 62–89,doi:10.1163/9789004332089_005,ISBN978-90-04-33207-2 See note 4.
Wiep van Bunge et al. (editors),The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers (2003), Thoemmes Press (two volumes), article Meyer, Lodewijk, p. 694–9.
Israel, Jonathan I. (1998).The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 914–920.ISBN0-19-820734-4.
Israel, Jonathan I. (2001).Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 197–205.ISBN0198206089.
