A reformation of schooles, designed in two excellent treatises: the first whereof summarily sheweth, the great necessity of a generall reformation of common learning. What grounds of hope there are for such a reformation. How it may be brought to passe. The second answer certaine objections ordinarily made against such undertakings, and describes the severall parts and titles of workes which are shortly to follow. Written many yeares agoe in Latine by that reverend, godly, learned, and famous divine Mr. John Amos Comenius, one of the seniours of the exiled Church of Moravia: and now upon the request of many translated into English, and published by Samuel Hartlib, for the generall good of this nation.

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  • A reformation of schooles, designed in two excellent treatises: the first whereof summarily sheweth, the great necessity of a generall reformation of common learning. What grounds of hope there are for such a reformation. How it may be brought to passe. The second answer certaine objections ordinarily made against such undertakings, and describes the severall parts and titles of workes which are shortly to follow. Written many yeares agoe in Latine by that reverend, godly, learned, and famous divine Mr. John Amos Comenius, one of the seniours of the exiled Church of Moravia: and now upon the request of many translated into English, and published by Samuel Hartlib, for the generall good of this nation.
  • Pansophiae prodromus. English
  • Dilucidation, answering certaine obiections
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Imprint
London: printed for Michael Sparke senior, at the Blew Bible in Green Arbor, 1642.
Publication year
1642-1642
ESTC No.
R9161
Grub Street ID
129267
Description
[2], 94 p. ; 4⁰
Note
A translation of his "Pansophiae prodromus" (1639), originally published in slightly different form as "Porta sapientiae reserata" (1637).

"A dilucidation, answering certaine obiections" has a separate dated title page on p. 61.

Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E3 a fragment with title page only.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C5529