Fernand Hallyn

Fernand Hallyn (1945–2009) was a professor in French Literature at Ghent University. Perhaps his best-known book is La structure poétique du monde: Copernic, Kepler (Paris, Seuil, 1987), translated into English as The Poetic Structure of the World (New York, Zone Books, 1990). Among his other books are Formes métaphoriques dans la poésie lyrique de l’âge baroque en France (Geneva, Droz, 1975), Les structures rhétoriques de la science (Paris, Seuil, 2004), Descartes: dissimulation et ironie (Geneva, Droz, 2006), Gemma Frisius, arpenteur de la terre et du ciel (Paris, Honoré Champion, 2006), and an edition and translation of Galileo’s Siderius Nuncius (Galilée: Le messager des étoiles, Paris, Seuil, 1992).