Leigh T I Penman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1201822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leigh T I Penman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leigh T I |
| FAMILY NAME | Penman |
| SIGNATURE | PENMAN L T I |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9191-2934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New Light on the Survivors of the Vergulde Draak , a VOC Ship Wrecked on the Australian Coast (1656)
This article introduces a document from the Amsterdam City Archive which sheds new light on the fate of the Vergulde Draak, or Gilt Dragon, a United Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship wrecked off Australia’s west coast in 1656. The document identifies one of the survivors of the wreck who made it on to the shores of the Southland, Hendrick Driessen of Ratingen, and supplies information concerning his background, vocation, and activities both bef…
Of Poets, Prophets, and Printers
This article identifies the personalities and circumstances behind two previously unknown heterodox religious publishing projects of the seventeenth century. The first was based in Leiden in the United Provinces, while the second originated in Dresden in Electoral Saxony. The Leiden project was likely led by the German jurist Johann Angelius Werdenhagen, who in 1628 had Jacob Böhme’s Weg zu Christo and Anna Ovena Hoyer’s Gespräch Eines Kindes mit…
The Making of John Slezer
Robert Boyle's anonymous ‘Crosey-Crucian’ identified
Using previously neglected manuscript sources, this paper sheds light on a puzzling episode in the later life of Robert Boyle and the early career of his laboratory assistant Ambrose Godfrey. Currently, the only account of their disappointing encounter with an unnamed German adept derives from Godfrey's lost manuscript treatise ‘An Apology and Letter touching a Crosey-Crucian’, excerpts of which were published in 1858. Based on a comparison betwe…
The Broken Tradition
The present article documents a series of errors discovered in letters of the Lusatian theosopher Jacob Böhme (1575–1624) dating from 1621 and 1623. These errors, some of which were present in the manuscript tradition, some of which were introduced in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century printed editions, have influenced modern scholarly opinion on Böhme’s works concerning the doctrine of predestination, as well as the identity and influence of se…
Between Utopia and New Jerusalem
Contributing to discussions concerning the influence of eschatological ideas on trajectories of natural philosophy in the early modern period, the present article analyses several distinct projects which emerged from the intellectual and religious traditions of Lutheran confessional culture, which imagined a future earthly golden age that existed in a discursive space between communistic utopia and heavenly Jerusalem. A consideration of this impu…
Samuel Hartlib on the death of Descartes
This paper discloses the content of a previously overlooked epistle by the Anglo-Prussian intelligencer Samuel Hartlib to Henry More concerning the death of René Descartes. After a discussion situating the letter within the sequence of the More–Hartlib correspondence, an analysis of the rhetorical structure of the epistle is offered, followed by a brief assessment of Hartlib's attitude towards Descartes, and the identification of his source conce…
The Hidden History of the Cosmopolitan Concept
Despite the ubiquity of contemporary debate in learned and popular cultures concerning the place of the cosmopolitan and cosmopolitanism, the historical background to this peculiarly Western vision of world unity remains understudied and virtually unknown. This is particularly the case, rather surprisingly, for the early modern period, when the term “cosmopolite” reappeared in European vocabularies for the first time since antiquity. It is during…
From the Archives of Scientific Diplomacy
Many historians have traced the accumulation of scientific archives via communication networks. Engines for communication in early modernity have included trade, the extrapolitical Republic of Letters, religious enthusiasm, and the centralization of large emerging information states. The communication between Samuel Hartlib, John Dury, Duke Friedrich III of Gottorf-Holstein, and his key agent in England, Frederick Clodius, points to a less obviou…
L’ombre des archives dans les cultures du savoir du XVIIe siècle
Der Begriff des «Schattens der Archive » spielt eine wichtige Rolle, möchte man die Geschichte der europäischen Kultur verstehen ; dies gilt insbesondere für alle, die über die wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz des 17. Jahrhunderts arbeiten. Diese auf die Archive bezogene Formulierung betrifft mehrere Aspekte. Sie kann zunächst die konzeptuelle Einteilung der Philosophen jener Epoche widerspiegeln, die von der zu unterscheiden ist, nach der spätere…
Luther und das Konzil
Rosenkreuzerschriften
“Ein Liebhaber des Mysterii, und ein großer Verwandter desselben.” Toward the Life of Balthasar Walther
Despite the attention recently paid to Jakob Böhme's life and works, the Görlitz theosopher's most famous disciple, Balthasar Walther (1558-c.1630), remains something of a historical puzzle. Utilizing several recently rediscovered print and manuscript sources located by the author, the present article seeks to provide the first detailed biographical study of Walther, highlighting his significance to sixteenth and seventeenth century history in a …
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
Although now forgotten, Paul Nagel was one of the most notorious seventeenth‐century critics of orthodox Lutheranism. His Prognosticon Astrologo‐Cabalisticum (1618) and Stellae Prodigiosae (1619), in which he sketched a complex astrological‐prophetic system, were followed by numerous books and pamphlets over the next five years in which he predicted the arrival of the Last Judgement in 1666. Although the failure of his prophecies for 1624 led to …
A second Christian Rosencreuz? Jacob Böhme’s disciple Balthasar Walther (1558- c. 1630) and the Kabbalah. With a bibliography of Walther’s printed works
In the eighteenth chapter of his commentary on Genesis, entitled Mysterium Magnum (completed 1624), the Lusatian theosopher Jakob Böhme (1575–1624) made a startling declaration concerning the reception of the Ten Commandments atop Mount Sinai. According to the account of Exodus, God had commanded Moses to hew two tables of stone upon which He would inscribe the text of the Decalogue for the instruction of His chosen people. This Moses did, ‘and …
From the Archives of Scientific Diplomacy
Many historians have traced the accumulation of scientific archives via communication networks. Engines for communication in early modernity have included trade, the extrapolitical Republic of Letters, religious enthusiasm, and the centralization of large emerging information states. The communication between Samuel Hartlib, John Dury, Duke Friedrich III of Gottorf-Holstein, and his key agent in England, Frederick Clodius, points to a less obviou…
A second Christian Rosencreuz? Jacob Böhme’s disciple Balthasar Walther (1558- c. 1630) and the Kabbalah. With a bibliography of Walther’s printed works
In the eighteenth chapter of his commentary on Genesis, entitled Mysterium Magnum (completed 1624), the Lusatian theosopher Jakob Böhme (1575–1624) made a startling declaration concerning the reception of the Ten Commandments atop Mount Sinai. According to the account of Exodus, God had commanded Moses to hew two tables of stone upon which He would inscribe the text of the Decalogue for the instruction of His chosen people. This Moses did, ‘and …
“Ein Liebhaber des Mysterii, und ein großer Verwandter desselben.” Toward the Life of Balthasar Walther
Despite the attention recently paid to Jakob Böhme's life and works, the Görlitz theosopher's most famous disciple, Balthasar Walther (1558-c.1630), remains something of a historical puzzle. Utilizing several recently rediscovered print and manuscript sources located by the author, the present article seeks to provide the first detailed biographical study of Walther, highlighting his significance to sixteenth and seventeenth century history in a …
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
Although now forgotten, Paul Nagel was one of the most notorious seventeenth‐century critics of orthodox Lutheranism. His Prognosticon Astrologo‐Cabalisticum (1618) and Stellae Prodigiosae (1619), in which he sketched a complex astrological‐prophetic system, were followed by numerous books and pamphlets over the next five years in which he predicted the arrival of the Last Judgement in 1666. Although the failure of his prophecies for 1624 led to …
Rosenkreuzerschriften
Luther und das Konzil
L’ombre des archives dans les cultures du savoir du XVIIe siècle
Der Begriff des «Schattens der Archive » spielt eine wichtige Rolle, möchte man die Geschichte der europäischen Kultur verstehen ; dies gilt insbesondere für alle, die über die wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz des 17. Jahrhunderts arbeiten. Diese auf die Archive bezogene Formulierung betrifft mehrere Aspekte. Sie kann zunächst die konzeptuelle Einteilung der Philosophen jener Epoche widerspiegeln, die von der zu unterscheiden ist, nach der spätere…
Samuel Hartlib on the death of Descartes
This paper discloses the content of a previously overlooked epistle by the Anglo-Prussian intelligencer Samuel Hartlib to Henry More concerning the death of René Descartes. After a discussion situating the letter within the sequence of the More–Hartlib correspondence, an analysis of the rhetorical structure of the epistle is offered, followed by a brief assessment of Hartlib's attitude towards Descartes, and the identification of his source conce…
The Hidden History of the Cosmopolitan Concept
Despite the ubiquity of contemporary debate in learned and popular cultures concerning the place of the cosmopolitan and cosmopolitanism, the historical background to this peculiarly Western vision of world unity remains understudied and virtually unknown. This is particularly the case, rather surprisingly, for the early modern period, when the term “cosmopolite” reappeared in European vocabularies for the first time since antiquity. It is during…
From the Archives of Scientific Diplomacy
Many historians have traced the accumulation of scientific archives via communication networks. Engines for communication in early modernity have included trade, the extrapolitical Republic of Letters, religious enthusiasm, and the centralization of large emerging information states. The communication between Samuel Hartlib, John Dury, Duke Friedrich III of Gottorf-Holstein, and his key agent in England, Frederick Clodius, points to a less obviou…
Between Utopia and New Jerusalem
Contributing to discussions concerning the influence of eschatological ideas on trajectories of natural philosophy in the early modern period, the present article analyses several distinct projects which emerged from the intellectual and religious traditions of Lutheran confessional culture, which imagined a future earthly golden age that existed in a discursive space between communistic utopia and heavenly Jerusalem. A consideration of this impu…
The Broken Tradition
The present article documents a series of errors discovered in letters of the Lusatian theosopher Jacob Böhme (1575–1624) dating from 1621 and 1623. These errors, some of which were present in the manuscript tradition, some of which were introduced in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century printed editions, have influenced modern scholarly opinion on Böhme’s works concerning the doctrine of predestination, as well as the identity and influence of se…
Robert Boyle's anonymous ‘Crosey-Crucian’ identified
Using previously neglected manuscript sources, this paper sheds light on a puzzling episode in the later life of Robert Boyle and the early career of his laboratory assistant Ambrose Godfrey. Currently, the only account of their disappointing encounter with an unnamed German adept derives from Godfrey's lost manuscript treatise ‘An Apology and Letter touching a Crosey-Crucian’, excerpts of which were published in 1858. Based on a comparison betwe…
New Light on the Survivors of the Vergulde Draak , a VOC Ship Wrecked on the Australian Coast (1656)
This article introduces a document from the Amsterdam City Archive which sheds new light on the fate of the Vergulde Draak, or Gilt Dragon, a United Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship wrecked off Australia’s west coast in 1656. The document identifies one of the survivors of the wreck who made it on to the shores of the Southland, Hendrick Driessen of Ratingen, and supplies information concerning his background, vocation, and activities both bef…
Of Poets, Prophets, and Printers
This article identifies the personalities and circumstances behind two previously unknown heterodox religious publishing projects of the seventeenth century. The first was based in Leiden in the United Provinces, while the second originated in Dresden in Electoral Saxony. The Leiden project was likely led by the German jurist Johann Angelius Werdenhagen, who in 1628 had Jacob Böhme’s Weg zu Christo and Anna Ovena Hoyer’s Gespräch Eines Kindes mit…
The Making of John Slezer
Philosophy (11 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Classics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)