Did John Milton and Baruch Spinoza know of and/or about each other?
Upvote:4
Maybe... but it seems that there are no evidence.
See:
- Gordon Campbell & Thomas Corns, John Milton: Life Work and Thought (2008), page 267:
The circle of Milton, Lawrence, and Skinner also included Marvell, Oldenburg, and Lady Ranelagh. [...] Henry Oldenburg, a friend of Milton who was later to become Wrst president of the Royal Society (and a friend of Spinoza), had corresponded with Edward Lawrence; drafts of four letters from Oldenburg to Lawrence survive in the archives of the Royal Society: two in French, one in Italian, one in Latin. Similarly, Milton says in a letter to Oldenburg that he has passed on greetings to ‘our Lawrence’.
The friendship with Oldenburg dated from 1653.
Milton studied Dutch and travelled extensively abroad, including Holland, between 1638 and 1639, but this is too early: Spinoza was born in 1632.
More post
- 📝 Did Taíno natives ever work Spanish galleons?
- 📝 Why Antarctica was never conquered before the advent of the modern men?
- 📝 When planning Barbarossa, did Germany conceive of the Soviet migration of heavy industry?
- 📝 How did the Nazis view Dickens' Oliver Twist?
- 📝 How advanced were the people of Indus valley civilization in engineering?
- 📝 Did France actually intend to colonise West Australia and were any resources assigned to this objective prior to 1829?
- 📝 How did gold come to symbolize lower ranks than silver in the United States Air Force?
- 📝 What was the actual dispute that triggered the March 2013 anti-Muslim riots in Myanmar?
- 📝 Is this accusation in the Declaration of Independence factual?
- 📝 Looking for source for Jefferson Davis with Bat Wings
- 📝 Is there evidence of extensive Viking presence in North America?
- 📝 Were myopic slaves more valuable in ancient Greece?
- 📝 How did Richard I sail through the strait of Gibraltar?
- 📝 Please help identify this medal... German military?
- 📝 Border crossings between USSR and Afghanistan in the 1960s
- 📝 What happened to the undergrad students who attended the Feynman Lecture Series in 1961-63?
- 📝 How did NATO handle the military coups and juntas in Greece, Turkey and Portugal?
- 📝 When and how did David become the mascot of Florence?
- 📝 What percentage of modern day Turks are of Bulgarian/Circassian/Greek/Serbian descent?
- 📝 Why did China annex Tibet?
- 📝 Medieval Saharan Caravan Navigation
- 📝 How was the literacy rate of Americans impacted by the establishment of public schools?
- 📝 What laws did the king "refuse to pass... unless those people would relinquish the right of representation"?
- 📝 When was Susa first mentioned in written documents?
- 📝 How did France balance the budget by 1738?
- 📝 Why did the Middle Kingdom stop building pyramid tombs?
- 📝 Did the Delphic oracle speak gibberish?
- 📝 Did Napoleon write an elegy to Imam Hussain?
- 📝 What was the extent of Kohl's government opposition to the independence of Ukraine?
- 📝 If Bill Clinton was impeached, why did he finish his second term?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Did John Milton and Baruch Spinoza know of and/or about each other?
- 📝 Did the aborigines of Australia and the Maoris in New Zealand know about each other's existence, before the Europeans came?
- 📝 How did Milton know about Egyptian gods like Osiris, Isis and Orus?
- 📝 Did Churchill and Roosevelt know about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, or the following secret pacts between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union?
- 📝 What did the Jews during the First Jewish-Roman War know about other anti-Roman revolts?
- 📝 Did John F. Kennedy know about his judicial nominee's racism?
- 📝 Why did Ancient Greek city-states fight each other and how did they morally justify it?
- 📝 What did people in 13th century England know about Greek mythology?
- 📝 Did the Romans know about China?
- 📝 Why did the Chinese Nationalist party members go to the island of Taiwan and not to any other island?
- 📝 What did Tacitus write about Nero and the Great Fire of Rome 64AD?
- 📝 How did Christianity replace Roman Paganism and other ancient religions?
- 📝 Did King George III turn his back on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
- 📝 What did other European powers say when Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Tordesillas?
- 📝 What did the average German citizen know about the war?
- 📝 Did the Inca Empire know about the Polynesians, or vice versa?
- 📝 What were the thoughts of the Celts, Romans and other ancient European people about the standing stones which survive from prehistoric times?
- 📝 What did the Soviets know about the Hunger Plan during WWII?
- 📝 Where did John Adams write of the night he shared a bed and an argument with Benjamin Franklin? Did Franklin write of it as well?
- 📝 Did anyone warn about the potential for stock market crashes in 1929, and if so why were their warnings ignored?
- 📝 Why did Nepal and Bhutan not become a part of India like other princely states when colonial rule ended?
- 📝 Why did Chicago and other cities choose an L (elevated metro) when most others chose underground subways?
- 📝 Did more Jews live in Poland than any other country, prior to the Holocaust, because of how Polish laws and people regarded Jews?
- 📝 Did the Ottoman government rationalize the Armenian Genocide and other instances of ethnic cleansing as a response to Russian expansion?
- 📝 How did the First French Empire and allies differ from the other European monarchies at that time?
- 📝 How did lower classes with aspirations to high social standing greet each other in the Paris of the 1630's?
- 📝 When and where did Louis Blanc say the famous "from each according to his abilities..."?
- 📝 Do we know of other examples of modern Utilitarian/Poltical 'cannibalism' (as defined by Carlyle), besides the French Revolutionaries and the Nazis?
- 📝 How did early farmer societies "know" about protein contents of peas and lentils?
- 📝 Did Mithraism and other Roman cults surpass the original Greco-Roman religion in popularity before the rise of Christianity?