The teacher of nations : addresses and essays in commemoration of the visit to England of the great Czech educationalist Jan Amos Komenský, Comenius, 1641-1941 / by Eduard Beneš, J.L. Paton, Henry Morris [and others] ; edited by Joseph Needham, with a chronological table showing the events in the life of Comenius by R. Fitzgibbon Young and a select bibliography of the works of Comenius by Anna Heyberger (translated by Corinne Barham).

1942

vii, 99 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Copy 2 Supplier/Donor: Prof. Bruce-Chwatt

The place of Comenius in history as a good European, by Eduard Beneš.--Comenius as a pioneer of education, by J. L Paton.--Education and the community, by Henry Morris.--Comenius' visit to England (1641), and the rise of scientific societies in the seventeenth century, by J. D. Bernal.--Comenius and the invisible college (1645-1662) by R. F. Young.--Comenius and Harvard, by J. B. Conant.--Comenius' life and work in its historical setting, by O. Odložilík.--Comenius, the English revolution, and our present plight, by Oskar Kokoschka.--Comenius and confidence in the rational mind, by Dorothea W. Singer.--The social relations of science in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, by J. G. Crowther.--The debt of Europe to Czechoslovakia and to Comenius, by Ernest Barker.