John Worthington (academic)
John Worthington (1618–1671) was an English academic. He was closely associated with the Cambridge Platonists.[1][2] He did not in fact publish in the field of philosophy, and is now known mainly as a well-connected diarist.
Life
He was born in
He was Master of
He died in London in 1671 and he left his books on
Family
He married Mary Whichcote, in 1657. She was niece to both Benjamin Whichcote[10][11][12] and Elizabeth Foxcroft (née Whichcote), mother of Ezechiel Foxcroft.[13]: 197
Hartlib correspondence
Worthington was an active correspondent of
After Hartlib's death, Worthington took on the task of organising his archive of correspondence, which had been bought by William Brereton, 2nd Baron Brereton.[17] After a period of nearly 300 years, the bundles into which he sorted it were rediscovered, and his system for the archive persists.[18]
Works
- The Christian's Pattern: a translation of the De Imitatione of Thomas à Kempis (1654)
- John Smith, Selected Discourses (London, 1660) editor
- Life of Joseph Mede with third edition of Mede's Works (1672)
- The Great Duty of Self-Resignation to the Divine Will (1675)
- The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington, 2 vols. (1847–86, Chetham Society), editor James Crossley
Notes
- ^ Hutton, Sarah (1 August 2013). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University – via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- ^ http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/themes/94/94274-content.html [dead link]
- ^ "Worthington, John (WRTN632J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "The University of Cambridge: The early Stuarts and Civil War | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
- ^ a b Andrew Pyle (editor), Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers (2000), pp. 914-5.
- ^ "Vice-Chancellor's Office: Cambridge Vice-Chancellors". Archived from the original on 21 February 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ "The University of Cambridge: The age of Newton and Bentley (1660-1800) | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
- ^ "Hackney | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
- , retrieved 21 August 2023
- ^ Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs.The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy: Or "The Hunting of the Greene Lyon" (1983), p. 112.
- ^ Robert Crocker, Henry More, 1614-1687: A Biography of the Cambridge Platonist (2003), note p. 260.
- ^ "Masters of Jesus College". www.jesus.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 5 July 2009.
- ISBN 9781402015021. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ "Biblical Criticism Catalogue Number 70". www.mhs.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ Matt Goldish, Judaism in the Theology of Sir Isaac Newton: International Archives of the History of Ideas (1998), p. 23.
- ^ see Popkin, Richard H., “Hartlib, Dury and the Jews,” in M. Greengrass, M. Leslie, and T. Raylor, eds., Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 118-136; cf. pp. 122-123.
- ^ Michael Hunter, Archives of the Scientific Revolution: The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-century Europe (1998), p. 40.
- ^ Sheffield, University of (10 January 2018). "Hartlib Papers - Special Collections - The University Library - The University of Sheffield". www.sheffield.ac.uk.
References
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mullinger, James Bass (1900). "Worthington, John". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.