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Benjamin Worsley

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42:. Worsley was from 1651 a physician in Cromwell's army, but took to surveying around 1653. His work was too rough-and-ready to be of practical help to arranging land grants to soldiers, and 229:, in Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor (eds.), Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication (Cambridge University Press, 1994), 236-46 39: 270: 193: 265: 20: 107: 24: 75: 23:, experimental scientist, civil servant and intellectual figure of Commonwealth England. He studied at 260: 255: 221:
Faith, Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle
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Benjamin Worsley: engineering for universal reform from the Invisible College to the Navigation Act
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in Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication (1994)
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Benjamin Worsley (1618-1677): trade, interest and the spirit in revolutionary England
43: 50: 141: 71: 99: 31: 128: 126: 213:William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe (2002), 94:(1646). Later, probably in the mid-1650s, he wrote 227:New Light on Benjamin Worsley's Natural Philosophy 49:He was an alchemical writer, and associate of 8: 113:He was also probably heterodox in religion. 78:in 1648-9. Worsley followed the theories of 66:Worsley associated with the circle around 166:Newman and Principe, p. 212; Young Ch. 7. 57:from 1650. He was a major figure of the 122: 19:(1618–1673) was an English physician, 7: 14: 198:Milton and the English Revolution 98:. He also took up the alchemy of 184:Newman and Principe, p. 244-49. 175:Newman and Principe, p. 239-44. 74:, and on their behalf visited 27:, but may not have graduated. 1: 146:A History of the Modern Fact 132:Newman and Principe, p. 239. 21:Surveyor-General of Ireland 287: 215:Alchemy Tried in the Fire 108:Johannes Sibertus Kuffler 271:17th-century alchemists 96:De nitro theses quaedam 34:was of land claimed by 25:Trinity College, Dublin 90:in the manufacture of 76:Johann Rudolph Glauber 30:His survey of land in 225:Clericuzio, Antonio, 219:J. T. Young (1998), 239:Thomas Leng (2008) 232:Webster, C. (1994) 80:Michael Sendivogius 266:English alchemists 60:Invisible College 40:Act of Settlement 278: 201: 194:Christopher Hill 191: 185: 182: 176: 173: 167: 164: 158: 155: 149: 139: 133: 130: 17:Benjamin Worsley 286: 285: 281: 280: 279: 277: 276: 275: 246: 245: 205: 204: 192: 188: 183: 179: 174: 170: 165: 161: 156: 152: 148:(1998), p. 121. 140: 136: 131: 124: 119: 36:Oliver Cromwell 12: 11: 5: 284: 282: 274: 273: 268: 263: 258: 248: 247: 244: 243: 237: 230: 223: 217: 203: 202: 186: 177: 168: 159: 157:Young, p. 218. 150: 134: 121: 120: 118: 115: 104:Johann Moriaen 84:Clovis Hesteau 68:Samuel Hartlib 63:of the 1640s. 55:George Starkey 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 283: 272: 269: 267: 264: 262: 259: 257: 254: 253: 251: 242: 238: 235: 231: 228: 224: 222: 218: 216: 212: 211: 210: 209: 199: 195: 190: 187: 181: 178: 172: 169: 163: 160: 154: 151: 147: 143: 138: 135: 129: 127: 123: 116: 114: 111: 109: 105: 101: 100:transmutation 97: 93: 89: 85: 81: 77: 73: 69: 64: 62: 61: 56: 52: 47: 45: 44:William Petty 41: 37: 33: 28: 26: 22: 18: 240: 233: 226: 220: 214: 207: 206: 197: 189: 180: 171: 162: 153: 145: 137: 112: 95: 65: 58: 51:Robert Boyle 48: 29: 16: 15: 261:1673 deaths 256:1618 births 208:Works cited 142:Mary Poovey 86:. He was a 53:, and knew 46:took over. 250:Categories 117:References 38:under the 92:saltpeter 88:projector 72:John Dury 200:, p.294. 102:, with 32:Ireland 106:and 82:and 70:and 252:: 196:, 144:, 125:^ 110:.

Index

Surveyor-General of Ireland
Trinity College, Dublin
Ireland
Oliver Cromwell
Act of Settlement
William Petty
Robert Boyle
George Starkey
Invisible College
Samuel Hartlib
John Dury
Johann Rudolph Glauber
Michael Sendivogius
Clovis Hesteau
projector
saltpeter
transmutation
Johann Moriaen
Johannes Sibertus Kuffler


Mary Poovey
Christopher Hill
Categories
1618 births
1673 deaths
English alchemists
17th-century alchemists

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