A Biographical Memoir Of Samuel Hartlib, Milton's Familiar Friend
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- 1865
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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.
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- Author
- Henry Dircks
- First published
- 1865
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 137
- Language
- English
- Genre
- History
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