Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… resident alchemist [ … ] the Dutch Paracelsan physician Mercury von Helmont’, 5 as well as of the Virtuosi , i.e. the network of leading philosophers gathered by Anne. 6 Most notable, among these, were the chief of the Cambridge Platonists … ( Glanvill 86 ), devoted their attention to Greatrakes’s method of gathering together ordinary people, thus favouring social concord. The agreement that was reached on the enthusiastically positive judgment not only from the crowds of his … the President of the Royal Society Robert Boyle, ‘one of [ his ] admirers’ (Elmer 7). Greatrakes was thus a perceptive social net-worker as well as an ante-litteram self-promoting publicist: he carried out journalistic activities dealing …
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