Comenius in England.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Arno Press,
1971.
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| Series: | Eastern Europe collection.
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Table of 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 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)
- 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.