Samuel Hartlib Bibliography

Primary Editions

Blekastad, Milada, ‘Peter Figulus. Letters to Samuel Hartlib 1657–58′, Lychnos (1988), pp. 201–45.

Correspondence of Robert Boyle, ed. Michael Hunter, Antonio Clericuzio, and Lawrence M. Principe, 6 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001).

Braddick, M. J. and Greengrass, Mark, eds, ‘The Letters of Sir Cheney Culpeper, 1641–1657′, in Seventeenth-Century Political and Financial Papers, Camden Miscellany, 33 / Camden Fifth Series, 7 (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 105–402.

The Hartlib Papers (2 CD-ROMs, Ann Arbor, 1995; enlarged ed., Sheffield, 2002).

Hunter, Lynette, ed., The Letters of Dorothy Moore 1612–1664. The Friendships, Marriage, and Intellectual Life of a Seventeenth-Century Woman (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).

The Letters of Jan Jonston to Samuel Hartlib, ed. W.J. Hitchens,  Adam Matuszewski, and John Young (Warsaw: Retro-Art, 2000).

Malcolm, Noel, and Stedall, Jacqueline, eds, John Pell (1611–1685) and his Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish. The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. and tr. A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, 13 vols (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965–86).

Webster, Charles, Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970).

The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. J. Worthington, ed. J. Crossley, 3 vols (Manchester: Chetham Society Publications, 13, 36, and114, 1847–86).

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Secondary Works

Althaus, Friedrich, Samuel Hartlib Ein deutsch-englisches Charakterbild (Leipzig, 1884).

Bennet, Jim, and Mandelbrote, Scott, The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple: Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Museum of the History of Science in association with the Bodleian Library, 1998).

Bepler, Jill, ‘Herzog August and the Hartlib Circle’, in Hedwig Schmidt-Glintzer, et al., eds, A Treasure House of Books: The Library of Duke August of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Ausstellungskataloge der Herzog August Bibliothek, 75 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998), pp. 165–72.

Cagnolati, Antonella, Il circolo di Hartlib: riforme educative e diffusione del sapere (Inghhilterra 1630–1660) (Bologna, 2001).

Clucas, Stephen, ‘The Correspondence of a Seventeenth-Century “Chymicall Gentleman”: Sir Cheney Culpeper and the Chemical Interests of the Hartlib Circle’, Ambix, 40 (1993), pp. 147–70.

— , ‘Samuel Hartlib’s Ephemerides, 1635–59, and the Pursuit of Scientific and Philosophical Manuscripts: The Religious Ethos of an Intelligencer’, The Seventeenth Century, 6 (1991), pp. 33–55.

Dickson, Donald R., The Tessera of Antilia: Utopian Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century, Studies in Intellectual History, 88 (Leiden: Brill, 1998).

Di Palma, Vittoria, ‘Drinking Cider in Paradise: Science, Improvement, and the Politics of Fruit Trees’, in Adam Smyth, ed., A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2004), pp. 161–80.

Greengrass, Mark, ‘Samuel Hartlib and the Commonwealth of Learning’, in John Barnard, et al., eds, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, iv (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

— , ‘Archive Refractions: Hartlib’s Papers and the Workings of an Intelligencer’, in M. Hunter, ed., Archives of the Scientific Revolution: The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1998), pp. 35–48.

— , ‘Samuel Hartlib and Scribal Publication’, Acta Comeniana, 12 (1997), pp. 47–62.

— , ‘An “Intelligenger’s Workshop”: Samuel Hartlib’s Ephemerides’, Studia Comeniana et Historica, 26 (1996), pp. 48–62.

— , Leslie, Michael, and Raylor, Timothy, eds, Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

— , ‘Samuel Hartlib: “Intelligenceur” européen’, in La Diffusion et l’affrontement des idées en Europe 1600–1750 (Montbrison, 1994), pp. 213–34.

— , ‘Samuel Hartlib and International Calvinism’, Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, 25 (1993), pp. 464–75.

Inge, Keil, ‘Technology Transfer and Scientific Specialization: Johann Wiesel, Optician of Augsburg, and the Hartlib Circle’, in Greengrass, Leslie, and Raylor, eds, Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation, pp. 268–78.

Raylor, Timothy, ‘New Light on Milton and Hartlib’, Milton Quarterly, 27 (1993), pp. 19–31.

Rozbicki, M., ‘Between East-Central Europe and Britain: Reformation and Science as Vehicles of Intellectual Communication in the mid-Seventeenth Century’, East European Quarterly, 30 (1996), pp. 401–16.

Trevor-Roper, Hugh, ‘The Three Foreigners: the Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution’, in Religion, the Reformation and Social Change (3rd edn, London, 1984), pp. 237–93.

Turnbull, G.H., ‘Samuel Hartlib’s Influence on the Early History of the Royal Society’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 10 (1953), pp. 101–30.

— , ‘John Hall’s Letters to Samuel Hartlib’, Review of English Studies, New Series, 4 (1953), pp. 221–33.

— , ‘Samuel Hartlib’s Connection with Sir Francis Kynaston’s “Museum Minerv攑, Notes and Queries, 197 (1952), pp. 33–37.

— , Hartlib, Dury and Comenius: Gleanings from Hartlib’s Papers (Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool, 1947).

— , Samuel Hartlib: A Sketch of his Life and his Relations to J. A. Comenius (London: Oxford University Press, 1920).

Webster, Charles, Utopian Planning and the Puritan Revolution: Gabriel Plattes, Samuel Hartlib, and Macaria, Research Publications, II (Oxford: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 1979).

— , The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform, 1626–1660 (London, 1975).

— , The Intellectual Revolution of the Seventeenth Century (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974).

— , ‘Samuel Hartlib and the Great Reformation’, Acta Comeniana, 26 (1970), pp. 147–64.

Wilkinson, R.S., ‘The Hartlib Papers and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry’, Ambix, 15 (1968), pp. 54–69; and 17 (1970), pp. 85–110.

Young, J. T., Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998).

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