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Title: A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib

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dc:title A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib
dc:creator Charles Webster
dc:subject Samuel Hartlib;Hartlib Circle;Commonwealth and Protectorate;17th-century intellectual networks;Hartlib Papers;English Civil War
dc:description The 2013 digitization of the vast Hartlib Papers archive highlighted the pressing need for a comprehensive modern study of Samuel Hartlib (1600–1662), a central figure in seventeenth-century intellectual life. Though educated in Eastern Europe, Hartlib spent his adult life in London, where he became a prolific correspondent and chronicler. His Ephemerides, spanning 1634 to 1660, and his extensive correspondence with leading thinkers across Britain and Protestant Europe offer an unparalleled window into the era’s religious, political, and scientific ferment. 
 
This volume goes beyond previous studies in both scope and depth, drawing extensively on archival sources and offering new interpretations of Hartlib’s network and influence. Organized chronologically, it explores the wide-ranging social, economic, and ideological pursuits of Hartlib and his collaborators—many of them renowned figures in their own right—and his close alignment with the Cromwellian cause. 
 
Providing the most complete portrait to date of the Hartlib circle’s emergence and impact, this study sets a new benchmark for scholarship and invites renewed engagement with one of the early modern period’s most visionary projects of knowledge, reform, and communication.
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TOC Outline

  1. Cover
  2. Frontispiece
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. Introduction
  12. 1. The Young Hartlib
    1. 1.1 Elbing
    2. 1.2 Brieg and Silesia
    3. 1.3 Cambridge
    4. 1.4 Elbing: The Antilian Adventure
    5. 1.5 John Dury
  13. 2. Communion of Saints
    1. 2.1 Academies and Educational Debate
    2. 2.2 Puritan Orientation
    3. 2.3 Communications and Status
    4. 2.4 Introducing Jan Amos Komenský
    5. 2.5 Evaluating Comenius
    6. 2.6 Diversification
    7. 2.7 Comenius in London
    8. 2.8 Israel’s Call
  14. 3. The Hartlibian Resurgence
    1. 3.1 Stabilisation
    2. 3.2 Active Reconstruction
    3. 3.3 Benjamin Worsley, Robert Boyle and William Petty
    4. 3.4 John Hall
    5. 3.5 William Rand
    6. 3.6 Apocalypticism
  15. 4. Man of the Moment
    1. 4.1 Changing Times
    2. 4.2 The Hartlib Partnership Continued
    3. 4.3 Education and Training
    4. 4.4 The Thirst for Betterment
    5. 4.5 Husbandry Revolution
  16. 5. Phosphore Redde Diem!
    1. 5.1 Family Affairs
    2. 5.2 Oppressive Pain
    3. 5.3 Hard Times
    4. 5.4 ‘Not Without Dust and Heat’52
    5. 5.5 From Pomiculture to the Good Old Cause
    6. 5.6 Address: The Hartlibian Panacea
    7. 5.7 Loose Ends
    8. 5.8 Extinction of the Ephemerides
    9. 5.9 Being of the Spirit
  17. Epilogue
  18. Bibliography
    1. Primary Sources: Publications by Samuel Hartlib
    2. Other Primary Sources
    3. Secondary Sources
  19. Index
  20. About the Team
  21. This book need not end here…
  22. You may also be interested in:
  23. Back cover

Headings Outline

  • A PORTRAIT OF SAMUEL HARTLIB
  • A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib
    • In Search of Universal Betterment
      • Charles Webster
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Young Hartlib
    • 1.1 Elbing
    • 1.2 Brieg and Silesia
    • 1.3 Cambridge
    • 1.4 Elbing: The Antilian Adventure
    • 1.5 John Dury
  • 2. Communion of Saints
    • 2.1 Academies and Educational Debate
    • 2.2 Puritan Orientation
    • 2.3 Communications and Status
    • 2.4 Introducing Jan Amos Komenský
    • 2.5 Evaluating Comenius
    • 2.6 Diversification
    • 2.7 Comenius in London
    • 2.8 Israel’s Call
  • 3. The Hartlibian Resurgence
    • 3.1 Stabilisation
    • 3.2 Active Reconstruction
    • 3.3 Benjamin Worsley, Robert Boyle and William Petty
    • 3.4 John Hall
      • Humble Motion
      • Mataeotechnia Medicinae Praxeωs
    • 3.5 William Rand
      • Satanae Stratagemata
      • The Mirrour of True Nobility
      • The Society of Graduate Physicians and Miscellaneous Literary Projects
    • 3.6 Apocalypticism
      • Joseph Mede
      • Felicitas Ultimi Sæculi
      • Great End-Times
      • Clavis Apocalyptica
      • Lux in tenebris and the Aftermath
  • 4. Man of the Moment
    • 4.1 Changing Times
    • 4.2 The Hartlib Partnership Continued
    • 4.3 Education and Training
      • 4.3.1 British Comenians
      • 4.3.2 The Hartlibian Educational Cohort
        • John Milton
        • John Dury
        • William Petty
        • Samuel Harmar
      • 4.3.3 Higher Education and Training
        • A Ministry of Education
        • Training Colleges
        • The New College at Durham82
        • The New College in Dublin
        • Universities: The Future
    • 4.4 The Thirst for Betterment
      • 4.4.1 Technical Innovation
      • 4.4.2 Chemistry and Alchemy
        • Paracelsus
        • Helmont
        • Glauber
    • 4.5 Husbandry Revolution
      • Cressy Dymock
        • Walter Blith
        • Ralph Austen
        • Sir Richard Weston
        • Hartlib His Legacie, First and Second Editions
        • Irelands Naturall History
        • Hartlib His Legacy: The Third Edition
        • William Potter and the Land Bank
  • 5. Phosphore Redde Diem!
    • 5.1 Family Affairs
    • 5.2 Oppressive Pain
    • 5.3 Hard Times
    • 5.4 ‘Not Without Dust and Heat’52
    • 5.5 From Pomiculture to the Good Old Cause
    • 5.6 Address: The Hartlibian Panacea
      • Background
      • Launch
      • Considerations Tending
      • Further Discoverie
      • Dymock, Robinson et al.
      • Petitioning Cromwell
      • Retreat to Ireland
    • 5.7 Loose Ends
      • Scientific Organisation in Troubled Times
      • Antilia and Macaria
      • Skytte
      • Olbia
    • 5.8 Extinction of the Ephemerides
    • 5.9 Being of the Spirit
      • Metamorphosis of the World
      • Turkish Bible
      • Lithuanian and Armenian Bibles
      • Oriental Studies
      • Bible Translation Politics
      • Amen
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
    • Primary Sources: Publications by Samuel Hartlib
    • Other Primary Sources
    • Secondary Sources
  • Index
  • About the Team
  • This book need not end here…
    • Share
    • Donate
    • We invite you to connect with us on our socials!
    • Read more at the Open Book Publishers Blog
  • You may also be interested in:
  • Contents
    • Landmarks

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