Introduction / M. Greengrass, M. Leslie, T. Raylor
Philosophical pedagogy in reformed central Europe between Ramus and Comenius: a survey of the continental background of the 'Three Foreigners' / H. Hotson
In search of 'The True Logick': methodological eclecticism among the 'Baconian reformers' / S. Clucas
Comenius and his ideals: escape from the labyrinth / D. C̆apková
'The Unchanged peacemaker'? John Dury and the politics of irenicism in England, 1628-1643 / A. Milton
Hartlib, Dury and the Jews / R.H. Popkin
Millenarianism and the new science: the case of Robert Boyle / M. Oster
Closed and open languages: Samuel Hartlib's involvement with crytology and universal languages / G.F. Strasser.
Language as the product and mediator of knowledge: the concept of J.A. Comenius / J. Pr̆ívratská, V. Pr̆ívratský
Milton among the monopolists: Areopagitica, intellectual property and the Hartlib circle / K. Dunn
George Starkey and the selling of secrets / W.R. Newman
Benjamin Worsley: engineering for universal reform from the Invisible College to the Navigation Act / C. Webster
New light on Benjamin Worsley's natural philosophy / A. Clericuzio
'These 2 hundred years not the like published as Gellibrand has done de Magnete': the Hartlib circle and magnetic philosophy / S. Pumfrey
Technology transfer and scientific specialization: Johann Wiesel, optician of Augsburg, and the Hartlib circle / I. Keil.
The Hartlib circle and the cult and culture of improvement in Ireland / T.C. Barnard
Natural history and historical nature: the project for a natural history of Ireland / P. Coughlan
Hortulan affairs / J. Dixon Hunt
'Another epocha'? Hartlib, John Lanyon and the improvement of London in the 1650s / M. Jenner
Copy in a scribal hand of a letter from John Beale, probably to John Evelyn, 30 September 1659.
