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urn:uuid:da3926c2-ddb8-4567-b13e-1be2fee655ab 03 01 01 urn:uuid:da3926c2-ddb8-4567-b13e-1be2fee655ab 15 9781805116936 06 10.11647/OBP.0486 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib In Search of Universal Betterment 1 A01 Charles Webster First edition. 01 eng 00 312 03 B2 Biography 04 CT788.H34 10 HIS015040 93 NHB B2 European Studies: English and Irish Studies 93 JNB 10 POL010000 10 BIO006000 93 DNBH B2 History 10 EDU016000 93 JPA 93 DSB 10 LIT004120 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 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 16 Hartlib Fund Cambridge, UK 04 01 20251107 2025 06 15 9781805116912 06 15 9781805116929 06 15 9781805116936 06 15 9781805116950 06 15 9781805116943 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0486.pdf 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0486 99 01