Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… Warwickshire) in January 1666 to cure Edward Conway’s wife, Viscountess Anne, a Quaker convert deeply interested in the intellectual life of Restoration England , afflicted by chronic headaches . The residence of the Conways ‘housed one of … the Cambridge Platonists Henry More (a close and lasting friend of Viscountess Anne), Ralph Cudworth (author of The True Intellectual System of the World , 1678 ), Benjamin Whichcote, and the Dean of Connors George Rust. All these men of …
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