SAMUEL HARTLIB ŞI RELAŢIILE ACESTUIA CU ROYAL SOCIETY DIN LONDRA
Samuel Hartlib and his Relationship with Royal Society of London

Summary/Abstract: Samuel Hartlib was a polymath of German origin who settled, married and died in England. He was an active promoter and expert writer in many fields, interested in science, medicine, agriculture, politics, and education. He was a contemporary of Robert Boyle, whom he knew well, and a neighbour of Samuel Pepys in Axe Yard, London, in the early 1660s. He studied briefly at the University of Cambridge upon arriving in England. Hartlib is often described as an „intelligencer”, and indeed has been called „the Great Intelligencer of Europe”. His main aim in life was to further knowledge and so he kept in touch with a vast array of contacts, from high philosophers to gentleman farmers. He maintained a voluminous correspondence and much of this has survived, having been lost entirely from 1667 to 1945; it is housed in a special Hartlib Collection at the University of Sheffield in England.

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