Hartlib, Samuel

Webster, Charles. Macaria Samuel Hartlib and the Great Reformation. Acta Comeniana 26 (1970) 147-164. 

Dircks, Henry. A biographical memoir of Samuel Hartlib. .. London John Russell... 

Greengrass, Mark, Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor, eds. Samuel Hartlib and universal reformation studies in intellectual communication. Cambridge Cambridge... 

Webster, Charles. Samuel Hartlib and the advancement of learning. Cambridge Cambridge Univ P, 1970. 

Winthrop, John and Samuel Hartlib. Some correspondence of John Winthrop, Jr., and Samuel Hartlib edited by G.H. Turnbull. Proc Mass Hist Soc 72 (1957-1960) 37-67. Volume published 1963... 

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. 

In 1657 Benjamin Worsley sent Samuel Hartlib a series of letters dealing with astrology. Those of October refer to a Physico-Astrological Letter , which is now in the Hartlib Papers. The letter is in fact the Latin version of the letter published in Robert Boyle s posthumous General History of the Air (1692). In Worsley s astrological letter we read that celestial influences affect spirits contained in the human body, and in all natural bodies, as they are all of the same nature ... 

It is apparent that Samuel Hartlib and some of his associates regarded with the utmost interest the supposed properties of the spirit of the world contained in the air, notably those connected with the growth of plants. In a letter to Oldenburg of 30 September 1659 John Beale reported that he and Hartlib agreed that trees drink up diffuse ye Spirit of the World . ... 

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