In Memoriam Christoph J. Scriba (6 October 1929-26 July 2013)

Academic tools are seldom seen by others, but can be most revealing. During a stay of over two years in Oxford in the early 1960s, working towards his habilitation thesis, Christoph Scriba prepared a personal card catalogue of all the letters of John Wallis (1616–1703) he had unearthed in, amongst o...