Comenius in England : the visit of Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius), the Czech philosopher and educationist to London in 1641-1642; its bearing on the origins of the Royal Society, on the development of the encyclopaedia, and on plans for the higher education of the Indians of New England and Virginia, as described in contemporary documents
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Type of record: Book
Title: Comenius in England : the visit of Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius), the Czech philosopher and educationist to London in 1641-1642; its bearing on the origins of the Royal Society, on the development of the encyclopaedia, and on plans for the higher education of the Indians of New England and Virginia, as described in contemporary documents
Classmark: BC Gen q/COM/Y
Creator(s): Young, Robert Fitzgibbon (1879-1960)
Additional creator(s): Comenius, Johann Amos (1592-1670) (Other)
Related people: Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670; Comenius, Johann Amos
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1932
Language: English
Size and medium: 5 p. l., 99, [1] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280741
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001248139705181
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John Dury's letter of 6 January 1642 to Sir Cheney Culpeper describing the treatises which Dury and Comenius proposed to write in the projected pansophic college.--John Dury's letter of 13 January 1642 to Sir Cheney Culpeper describing the ways in which suitable quarters and a sufficient income might be obtained for the proposed pansophic college.--Komenský's description of the function of a universal college in chapter XXXI, & 15, of the Latin version of the Great didactic (1657).--Appendix A. Archbishop Williams as a patron of learning and science.--Appendix B. Plans for the higher education of the Indians in (I) Virginia (II) New England.
Table of dates illustrating the life of Comenius.--Table of dates illustrating the development of scientific societies.--Komenský's description of his pansophic plan, and his visit to England in 1641-2, as given in chapters 39-59 of his Continuatio admonitionis fraternae (1669).--Komenský's account of his visit in the introduction to the second part of his Opera didactica omnia (1657).--Komenský's allusions to his visit in his Pansophiae diatyposis (1643).--Komenský's description of his visit in his letter to the Royal Society of London (1668), dedicating the Via lucis to the Society.--Komenský's impressions of England, as recounted in a letter of 8/18 October 1641 to his friends at Leszno.-- Excerpt from Samuel Hartlib's Macaria (1641).--Jeremy Collier's observations on Komenský's visit to London in the dedicatory letter to S. Hartlib prefixed to his translation of Pansophiae diatyposis (1651).--
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With the author's autograph presentation inscription, Xmas 1932, on title-page, and accompanying letter inserted
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