Samuel Hartlib

Samuel Hartlib or Hartlieb was a polymath of German origin, who settled, married and died in England. He was a noted promoter and writer in fields that included science, medicine, agriculture, politics and education. He was a contemporary of Robert Boyle, whom he knew well, and a neighbour of Samuel Pepys in Axe Yard, London, in the early 1660s. He studied briefly at the University of Cambridge on arriving in England.