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urn:uuid:da3926c2-ddb8-4567-b13e-1be2fee655ab 03 15 9781805116943 00 EB E101 10 01 01 A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib In Search of Universal Betterment 1 A01 Charles Webster Charles Webster studied at University College London, where he took a degree in Botany and Microbiology. From 1959 to 1965 he was a science teacher at the City Grammar School, Leopold Street, Sheffield. Simultaneously he began private historical studies. His first historical paper was published in the journal Nature in 1962. He obtained an M.Sc. and D.Sc. at London University. After a short spell in the Philosophy Department at Leeds University, in 1968 he became a research fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1972, he was made a University Reader, also attached to Corpus. He remained in this post until 1988, when he became a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, a post which he retained until his retirement. Currently he is an Emeritus Fellow at both Corpus and All Souls. In connection with his early work, especially 'The Great Instauration', in 1980 he was elected an FBA. 01 eng 00 312 03 23 Biography 04 CT788.H34 10 HIS015040 23 Samuel Hartlib 23 European Studies: English and Irish Studies 23 Hartlib Circle 10 POL010000 10 BIO006000 23 Commonwealth and Protectorate 23 History 23 17th-century intellectual networks 10 EDU016000 23 Hartlib Papers 10 LIT004120 23 English Civil War 01 06 03 00 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. 04 00 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 3.5 William Rand 3.6 Apocalypticism 4. Man of the Moment 4.1 Changing Times 4.2 The Hartlib Partnership Continued 4.3 Education and Training 4.4 The Thirst for Betterment 4.5 Husbandry Revolution 5. Phosphore Redde Diem! 5.1 Family Affairs 5.2 Oppressive Pain 5.3 Hard Times 5.4 ‘Not Without Dust and Heat’ 5.5 From Pomiculture to the Good Old Cause 5.6 Address: The Hartlibian Panacea 5.7 Loose Ends 5.8 Extinction of the Ephemerides 5.9 Being of the Spirit Epilogue Bibliography Primary Sources: Publications by Samuel Hartlib Other Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20251107 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805116912 06 15 9781805116929 06 15 9781805116936 06 15 9781805116950 06 15 9781805116943 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD