A Biographical Memoir Of Samuel Hartlib, Milton's Familiar Friend

Downloads: Under 100
First published: 1865
Pages: 137

Read online EPUB Download Save

About this book

A Biographical Memoir Of Samuel Hartlib, Milton's Familiar Friend is an 1865 study by Henry Dircks (1806-1873), the English engineer, inventor of Pepper's Ghost stage illusion, and historian of industrial and scientific biography. Dircks turned in his later years to the recovery of forgotten figures of seventeenth-century English scientific and educational reform, and this memoir is the first sustained nineteenth-century biographical study of Samuel Hartlib (c. 1600-1662), the Polish-born Prussian intelligencer who settled in London in the 1620s and became a central figure in the Hartlib Circle of correspondents on education, agriculture, religion, and natural philosophy. Hartlib was a friend of John Milton, who dedicated Of Education to him in 1644. Dircks's memoir gathers the surviving printed sources and remained the standard English account of Hartlib until the twentieth-century scholarship of George Turnbull and Charles Webster. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

History

About the author

Henry Dircks

Henry Dircks pursued practical engineering, scientific writing, chemistry, invention, and literary history across an unusually varied career. He worked on railway, canal, and mining projects, later becoming a consulting engineer, and he belonged to several learned societies.

Open the author page