Hartlib Circle

Clucas, Stephen. The correspondence of a XVII century Chymicall Gentleman Sir Cheney Culpeper and the chemical interests of the Hartlib Circle. Ambix 40, no. 3 (Nov 1993) 147-. 

Young, John T. Faith, medical alchemy and natural philosophy Johann Moriaen, reformed intelligencer and the Hartlib circle. Aldershot, Brookfield (VT) Ashgate, 1998. xv, 278p. ISBN 1-84014-282-0... 

Young, John. 1998. Faith, Medical Authority and Natural Philosophy Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle. Aldershot Ashgate. 

Along with Worsley, several members of the Hartlib Circle devoted attention to the distillation of spirit, which they regarded as the principle of life - coming from the spirit of the world. This view was shared by George Starkey, one of the most prominent chemists in the Hartlib Circle. In his Natures Explication and Helmont s Vindication we read that ... 

Lutheran pastor who composed The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart during the early years of the Thirty Years War. He eventually fled to England, where he may have participated in Samuel Hartlib s circle. 

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