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Systemvoraussetzungen :: System requirements
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP
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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
The papers of the seventeenth-century polymath Samuel Hartlib, (c.1600-1662) which survive in Sheffield University Library, constitute one of the great collections relating to the origins and development of modern western thought. They date from a period of intense scientific, intellectual, political, religious, and social change, from which emerged the structures of modern European and American education, science, and society. Hartlib and his collaborators are disciples of Francis Bacon and form founding nucleus of the Royal Society; they include the leading educationalists and philosophers of Europe and the first American scientists.
The Papers are composed of the correspondence, working papers, treatises, and scientific diaries not only of Hartlib himself but of his collaborators and contacts, who included many of the leading figures of the age in intellectual and political life. Hartlib's collaborators came not only from Britain but from throughout Europe and the emerging Amercan colonies - for example Cromwell, Robert Boyle, Pascal, John Winthrop Jr., Milton, Descartes, and Comenius. But the Papers reveal that these 'stars' are surrounded by a host of lesser figures, whose crucial contributions to intellectual history are often recorded only here. Hartlib and his circle actively generated contact with anyone who seemed likely to promote the perfection of human knowledge and society, in whatever field; the result is that thousands of individuals figure in the Papers. The Hartlib Papers contain unique research material on an almost unlimited range of subjects thoughout intellectual, political, and social history.
The archive presents contemporary intellectual life in unparalleled depth and complexity, and is particularly important because Hartlib created it self-consciously as a unified resource for scholars and statesmen - a seventeeth-century database of all knowledge. But the very depth and complexity which are the archive's hallmark have also made it exceptionally difficult to use and interpret - in excess of 20,000 pages of intensely varied manuscript in several languages and roughly 5,000 pages of printed material.
This database combines transcribed text of all 25,000 manuscript pages, the images of each manuscript, and sophisticated yet simple-to-use search software. This second edition also incorporates a modern graphical user interface, allowing flexible searching of the documents and a unique on-screen comparison of different texts. More than 1.000 additional pages of UK and international materials have been incorporated, together with translations of some of the most important Latin texts in the collection.
The Second Edition also includes additional Hartlib-related materials which were transcribed after the first edition had already been published. These include a stray 'bundle' of papers, originally belonging to Hartlib but now held in the Beinecke Library at Yale; correspondence between Hartlib and Robert Boyle, Hartlib and John Worthington, Hartlib and Joseph Mede; Hartlib material from the British Library and the Bodleian Library; and material from other European holdings. In addition, translations of some of the most important Latin texts in the collection are included.
A new graphical user interface allows flexible searching of the documents, printing facilities and a unique on-screen comparison of different texts. Full on-screen help is included as well as backup technical support for all purchasers.
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