University of Sheffield

Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation

Studies in Intellectual Communication
Herausgeber: Greengrass, Mark; Raylor, Timothy

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Produktbeschreibung

In the intellectual change that 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 Hand'. Hartlib (originally from Elbing) settled in England in the late 1620s and lived there 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 788g
• ISBN-13: 9780521452526
• ISBN-10: 052145252X
• Artikelnr.: 32088597

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor; Part I.
The Cultivation of Mind and Soul: 1. Philosophical pedagogy in reformed
central Europe between Ramus and Comenius Howard Horson; 2. In search of
'The True Logick' Stephen Clucas; 3. Comenius and his ideals Dagmar
Capkova; 4. 'The unchanged peacemaker'? John Dury and the politics of
irenicism in England, 1628-1643 Anthony Milton; 5. Hartlib, Dury and the
Jews Richard Popkin; 6. Millenarianism and the new science: the case of
Robert Boyle Malcolm Oster; Part II. The Communication of Knowledge: 7.
Closed and open languages: Samuel Hartlib's involvement with cryptology and
universal languages Gerhard Strasser; 8. Language as the product and the
mediator of knowledge: the concept of J. A. Comenius Jana Privratska and
Vladimir Privratsky; 9. Milton among the monopolists: Areopagitica,
intellectual property and the Hartlib circle Kevin Dunn; 10. George Starkey
and the selling of secrets William Newman; Part III. The Improvement of
Nature and Society: 11. Benjamin Worsley: engineering for universal reform
from the Invisible College to the Navigation Act Charles Webster; 12. New
light on Benjamin Worsley's natural philosophy Antonio Clericuzio; 13.
'These 2 hundred years not the like published as Gellibrand has done de
Magnete': the Hartlib circle and magnetic philosophy Stephen Pumfrey; 14.
Technology transfer and scientific specialization: Johann Wiesel, optician
of Augsburg, and the Hartlib circle Inge Keil; 15. The Hartlib circle and
the cult and culture of improvement in Ireland T. C. Barnard; 16. Natural
history and historical nature: the project for a natural history of Ireland
Patricia Coughlin; 17. Hortulan affairs John Dixon Hunt; 18. 'Another
epocha'?: Hartlib, John Lanyon and the improvement of London in the 1650s
Mark Jenner; Appendix.