East European-born English polymath
| Born | 1600 |
| Died | 1662 |
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![Cover of: The reformed Virginian silk-worm, or, A rare and new discovery of a speedy way, and easie means, found out by a young lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May, anno 1652. For the feeding of silk-worms in the woods, on the mulberry-tree-leaves in Virginia : who after fourty dayes time, present their most rich golden-coloured silken fleece, to the instant wonderful enriching of all the planters there, requiring from them neither cost, labour, or hindrance in any of their other emploments [sic] whatsoever. And also to the good hopes, that the Indians, seeing and finding that there is neither art, skill, or pains in the thing: they will readily set upon it, being by the benefit thereof inabled to buy of the English all those things that they most desire](http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/13224126-M.jpg "Cover of: The reformed Virginian silk-worm, or, A rare and new discovery of a speedy way, and easie means, found out by a young lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May, anno 1652. For the feeding of silk-worms in the woods, on the mulberry-tree-leaves in Virginia : who after fourty dayes time, present their most rich golden-coloured silken fleece, to the instant wonderful enriching of all the planters there, requiring from them neither cost, labour, or hindrance in any of their other emploments [sic] whatsoever. And also to the good hopes, that the Indians, seeing and finding that there is neither art, skill, or pains in the thing: they will readily set upon it, being by the benefit thereof inabled to buy of the English all those things that they most desire")
| Born | 1600 |
| Died | 1662 |
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Early works to 1800, Agriculture, Silkworms, History, Sericulture, Mulberry, Utopias, Agricultural education, Bees, Bible, Brit Tracts, Commentaries, Latin language, Poetry, Poor, Public welfare, Alchemy, Almshouses, Anglican Communion, Brit tracts, Charity laws and legislation, Church history, Church of England, Economic aspects of Agriculture, EducationPlaces
England, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Virginia, Ireland, London, Bermuda Islands, New England, New ZealandPeople
Eilhard Lubin (1565-1621), Francis Rous (1579-1659), John Dury (1596-1680), Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), Richard Carew Sir (d. 1643?), Virginia Farrer (1628-1668), Virginia Ferrar, William Potter (fl. 1650-1656)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL2073880A
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| September 21, 2022 | Edited by Tom Morris | Add birth date & brief bio from Wikidata |
| September 21, 2022 | Edited by Tom Morris | merge authors |
| August 20, 2008 | Edited by an anonymous user | fix author name |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |