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Article: Between East-Central Europe and Britain: reformation and science as vehicles of intellectual communication in the mid-seventeenth century.
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- East European Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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Two great processes taking place in mid-seventeenth century European culture -- the Reformation and the scientific revolution -- became instrumental in generating new types of intellectual contacts between East-Central Europe and Britain. Especially the Reformation, which linked dissenters in the sprawling, multi-ethnic Commonwealth of Poland with British Protestantism, engendered such relations. Hitherto, links of this type were scarce, and mostly limited to commercial, diplomatic, or tourist endeavors. This article examines the emergence of some little-known, early cases of such contacts, which transpired due to the activities of an informal, international group of ...