Samuel Hartlib's influence on Robert Boyle's scientific development

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• John Evelyn (1620–1706) records having spent nearly a week at Oxford about the middle of July 1654 visiting Wilkins at Wadham. He did not meet Boyle on this occasion, indicating that Boyle almost certainly arrived at a later date. See The Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn Esq., F.R.S. Wheatley H.B. London 1906 ii 54 58
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• Evelyn, according to his own account, first visited Hartlib on 27 November 1655, and describes him as a ‘master of innumerable curiosities and very communicative’. See The Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn Esq., F.R.S. Wheatley H.B. ii 80 80
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• Evelyn, according to his own account, first visited Hartlib on 27 November 1655, and describes him as a ‘master of innumerable curiosities and very communicative’. See The Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn Esq., F.R.S. Wheatly H.B. ii 83 83
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• Turnbull , G.H. 1953 . Samuel Hartlib's Influence on the Early History of the Royal Society . Notes and Records of The Royal Society of London , 10 : 112 – 112 . Turnbull quotes Hartlib. While visiting London in April 1656 Boyle probably met Johann Friedrich Schlezer, ‘an excellent scholar’, who was staying with Hartlib. He had arrived in England sometime before 7 December 1655, acting as the emissary of the Elector of Brandenburg to Oliver Cromwell. Another person whom Hartlib probably introduced to Boyle about this time was William Brereton (1631–1680), the mathematician.
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