Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual CommunicationMark Greengrass, Michael Leslie, Timothy Raylor In the crucible of intellectual change which took place in the seventeenth century, the role of Samuel Hartlib was of immense significance. As John Milton put it, he was sent 'hither by some good providence from a farre country to be the occasion and the incitement of great good to this Iland'.Hartlib (originally from Elbing) settled in England permanently from the late 1620s until his death in 1662. His aspirations formed a distinctive and influential strand in English intellectual life during those revolutionary decades. This volume reflects the variety of the theoretical and practical interests of Hartlib's circle and presents them in their continental context. The editors of the volume are all attached to the Hartlib Papers Project at the University of Sheffield, a major collaborative research effort to exploit the (largely untapped) resources of the surviving Hartlib manuscripts. In an introduction to the volume they explore the background to the Hartlib circle and provide the context in which the essays should be read. A concluding chapter describes the concurrently-published electronic edition of the Hartlib Papers. |
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Philosophical pedagogy in reformed central | 29 |
methodological | 51 |
escape from | 75 |
The Unchanged Peacemaker? John Dury | 95 |
Contents | 118 |
the case | 137 |
Samuel Hartlibs | 151 |
Language as the product and mediator of know | 162 |
engineering for universal | 231 |
These 2 hundred years not the like published | 247 |
The Hartlib circle and the cult and culture | 281 |
the project | 298 |
Hortulan affairs | 321 |
Another epocha? Hartlib John Lanyon and | 343 |
Appendix | 357 |
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