Article ID: CBB001212672

Reformation and the Distrust of the Projector in the Hartlib Circle (2012)

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Yamamoto, Koji (Author)


Historical Journal
Volume: 55, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 375-397

Case-studies of the circle of Samuel Hartlib, one of the most prolific groups of reformers in post-Reformation Europe, are flourishing. The uncovering of rich details has, however, made it difficult to draw a meaningful generalization about the circle's bewilderingly wide range of activities. Focusing on the circle's promotion of `useful knowledge', this article offers an analytical framework for building a new synthesis. The eclectic and seemingly chaotic pursuit of useful knowledge emerged, it will be shown, as differing responses to, and interpretations of, pervasive distrust and the pursuit of reformation. The article thus explores how loosely-shared experience shaped the circle's ambivalent practices of collaboration and exclusion. The study thereby contributes not only to studies of the Hartlib circle, but also to the historiography of post-Reformation culture and burgeoning studies of trust and credibility in the history of science and technology.

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Authors & Contributors
Keller, Vera A.
Ash, Eric H.
Clericuzio, Antonio
Gierl, Martin
Johns, Adrian
Johnstone, Nathan
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of the History of Collections
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
Brill
CLUEB
Frommann-Holzboog
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Reformation
Societies; institutions; academies
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Science and religion
Periodicals; serials
Cross-national interaction
People
Hartlib, Samuel
Boyle, Robert
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Beale, John
Campanella, Tommaso
Gatterer, Johann Christoph
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
18th century
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Places
England
Great Britain
Germany
Central Europe
France
Italy
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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