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See also:SAMUEL See also:HARTLIB (c. 1599–c. 1670)
, See also:English writer on See also:education and agriculturist, was See also:born towards the See also:close of the 16th See also:century at See also:Elbing in See also:Prussia, his See also:father being a refugee See also:merchant from See also:Poland
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His See also:mother was the daughter of a See also:rich-English merchant at See also:Danzig
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About 1628 See also:Hartlib went to See also:England, where he carried on a See also:mercantile agency, and at the same See also:time found leisure to enter with See also:interest into the public questions of the See also:day
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An enthusiastic admirer of See also:Comenius, he published in 1637 his Conatuum Comenianorum praeludia, and
in 1639 Comenii pansophiae prodromus et didactica dissertatio
.
In 1641 appeared his Relation of that which hath been lately
attempted to procure Ecclesiastical See also:Peace among Protestants, and
the A Description of Macaria, containing his ideas of what a See also:model
f See also:state should be
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During the See also:civil See also:war Hartlib occupied himself
with the peaceful study of See also:agriculture, See also:publishing various See also:works by himself, and See also:printing at his own expense several See also:treatises by others on the subject
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In 1652 he issued a second edition of the Discourse of See also:Flanders Husbandry by See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Weston (1645); and in 1651 See also:Samuel Hartlib, his See also:Legacy, or an Enlargement of the Discourse of Husbandry used in See also:Brabant and Flanders, by See also:Robert See also:Child
.
For his various labours Hartlib received from See also:Cromwell a See also:pension of £roo, afterwards increased to £3oo, as he had spent all his See also:fortune on his experiments
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He planned a school for the sons of gentlemen, to be conducted on new principles, and this probably was the occasion of his friend See also:Milton's Tractate on Education, addressed to him in 1644, and of Sir See also: Dircks, appeared in 1865 . |
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