Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment

by James R. Jacob

Book Overview

Called 'the most noted person of his age' by Anthony Wood, Henry Stubbe (1632-76), classicist, polemicist, physician, philosopher and the most important critic of the early Royal Society, has never had a biography. This study seeks to fill that gap, while standing received opinion about him on its head. The older view has it that at the Restoration Stubbe renounced his radical past and became the enemy of scientific progress and a reactionary defender...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521520169
• ISBN13: 9780521520164
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"