Life
?1600-?1667; b. Elbing, Prussia; ed. Cambridge, and settled in England c.1628; associated with John Drury, educationalist; wrote on husbandry; publ. Gerard
Boate’s Natural History of Ireland (1925), dedicated to Cromwell
and Fleetwood, ‘for the common good of Ireland, and more especially
for the benefit of Adventurers and planters there.’
d. 12 March, London. EB
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Criticism
Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor, Samuel Hartlib
and Universal Reformation, Studies in Intellectual Communication (Cambridge
UP 1995), 375pp.
Roy Foster, Modern Ireland (1988), gives bio-data incl. var. obit. 1672; see further under Boate.
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Notes
Norman Vance, Irish Literature, A Social History (Basil
Blackwell 1990), p.30, remarks on Hartlib’s role in encouraging Gerald
Boate, and also William Bedell’s universal language scheme; bibl.
T C bernard, ‘The Hartlib Circle and the origins of the Dublin Philosophical
Society’, Irish Historical Studies 18 (1974), pp.56-71.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)