Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation
Subtitle: Studies in Intellectual Communication
Contributors: Mark Greengrass (Editor); Michael Leslie (Editor); Timothy Raylor (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780521452526
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Western Europe - General; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Great Britain; d. 1662; Intellectual History; Pamphleteers; History; History - General History; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Hartlib, Samuel,; Europe - Great Britain - General; Hartlib, Samuel; Hartlib, Samuel,--d. 1662; History / Great Britain; 17th century; Intellectual life; Reformers; Scholars; Biography; England
First sentence: For several centuries after his death, the world of Samuel Hartlib was a lost continent, locked away in an ancient chest full of forgotten papers and pamphlets.