A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib : In Search of Universal Betterment

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...

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Autor principal: Charles Webster
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Publicado: Open Book Publishers 2025
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