Mare Clausum
John Selden
cited 3 times by 2 works in the library · not held
also in the atlas: Mare Clausum the object
The library does not hold this work. Two of its books reach for it anyway — that is what puts it on the corpus's wanted list.
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3 citations · from 2 works-
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 2 refuted 2 citations · 5 passages
Explicitly introduced as written to refute Mare Liberum and treated as the losing side of the 'battle of books.'
If it cannot be said that Grotius wears his learning “lightly like a flower”, the treatise of Selden is, in comparison, over-freighted with it;
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 refuted 1 citation
The passage frames Selden's work explicitly as a reply/rebuttal to Grotius's thesis.
Married in 1609 to Marie van Reigersberg, whose devotion was worthy of his deep affection, and loaded with public honors, having been named the official historian of the United Provinces and the advocate-general of two provinces, Holland and Zeeland, Grotius set his hand to a work entitled “Mare Librum,” in which he defended the freedom of the sea and the maritime rights of his country against the …
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