The Diary of John Evelyn

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Evelyn
Keyword(s):  
John Evelyn

Practising Architecture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Walker
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Important Group ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
John Evelyn

The first chapter establishes who practised architecture in the period and on what grounds they were considered to be credible practitioners of architectural design. Initially I set out the nature of the various people who designed buildings in the period and focus on one particularly important group who I term autodidactic architects, on the grounds that their credibility as architects came from their own learning from various sources. I then explore two authors who wrote extensively on this figure: Roger North, who defined the autodidactic architect in moral terms, and John Evelyn, who provided a more pragmatic definition of what he called the Architectus Ingenio. Evelyn, in contrast to North, claimed that people who had previously been builders could be included in the category of intellectual architect. This discussion sets up the rest of the book, which explores the nature of the knowledge these figures were expected to handle.

GABRIEL NAUDE AND JOHN EVELYN: WITH SOME NOTES ON THE MAZARINADES

The Library ◽  
1932 ◽  
Vol s4-XII (4) ◽  
pp. 383-408
Author(s):  
BALCARRES K.T.
Keyword(s):  
John Evelyn

THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SIR THOMAS BROWNE AND JOHN EVELYN

The Library ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol s4-XIX (1) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
E. S. DE BEER
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Browne ◽  
John Evelyn

Thomas White (1593–1676)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley Southgate
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
John Evelyn

Thomas White’s reputation has suffered unmerited decline since he was described by John Evelyn in 1651 as ‘a learned priest and famous philosopher’. His works embrace theology, metaphysics, natural philosophy and political theory. The leader of a minority faction of English Catholics, known after his alias as ‘Blackloists’, White’s overall intellectual position is determinedly antisceptical, characterized by a certainty-seeking synthesis of old and new. The traditional Aristotelianism of his own education is blended with aspects of the ‘new philosophy’ which he encountered in the 1640s; and in this respect White stands as an important representative of the intellectually turbulent times in which he lived.

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