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Scope and Contents The papers and correspondence of Samuel Hartlib, educationalist, natural philosopher and polymath of the seventeenth century.The archive, which includes copies of his own letters as well as those sent to him by others, represents the greater part of extant Hartlib material. The seventeenth century was a period of rapid scientific and philosophical development, as well as of social, religious and political crisis, and the Hartlib Papers, as well as providing important insights...

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A collection of pamphlets gathered by medical physicist Harold Miller, which relate to his interests in medical physics, the Methodist church, social justice, and world peace.

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A collection of glass-mounted slides relating to German history, literature, theatre and landscape. Ernest Arthur Seemann was a printer and publisher of art and history books, and these slides likely contain the images that were used in E. A. Seeman's publications.

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A collection of 198 bibles from the personal library of Oliver Aveyard Beckerlegge dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries.

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A collection of books and journals covering the topic of Theosophy, a doctrine of religious philosophy and metaphysics which developed in the late 19th century.