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Biographical Sketch
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the so-called rebels in Ireland. Their only child, Dora Katherina, married in her early twenties the somewhat austere scholar and scientist, Henry Oldenburg, a man of twice her years, who had been tutor to her young kinsman, Richard, Earl of Ranelagh. There is a record that she brought him an estate in the marshes of Kent worth £60 a year, inherited from her father.
But what has all this to do with The Reformed Librarie-Keeper, and when in his incessant round of journeyings, disputations and correspondence did John Dury find time to study library economy? A small incident, summed up in a few
