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Article: Hartlib, Samuel (Samuel Hartlieb; c. 1600–1662)
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HARTLIB, SAMUEL (Samuel Hartlieb; c. 1600
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1662)
HARTLIB, SAMUEL
(Samuel Hartlieb; c. 1600
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1662), English reformer. Samuel Hartlib was a scientific "intelligencer" who helped to place England on the map of the emerging Republic of Letters. He was born at Elbing (Elblag) in Poland around 1600 into a distinguished mercantile family, and received an extensive education in Germany and at Cambridge (1625
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1626) under John Preston (1587
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1628), master of Emmanuel College. He retreated to London in 1628 as the Habsburg armies advanced toward the Baltic coast and, after 1630, spent the rest of his life there.
Hartlib began to cultivate his international network of ...