:Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication

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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.