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 encyclopædia, and on plans for the higher education of the Indians of New England and Virginia, as described in contemporary documents / selected, translated and edited with an introduction, and tables of dates, by Robert Fitzgibbon Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.

Young, Robert Fitzgibbon, 1879-1960, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.

Comenius, Johann Amos.

Royal Society (Great Britain).

Learned institutions and societies.

Indians of North America--Education.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

99 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (portrait) XI plates (including portraits, facsimile) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1932.

Contents:

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 pt. 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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Notes:

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.

OCLC:

4873650