Paul Brewster on 10 Jul 2003  •  Link

Per L&M Companion: Physician and 'mystical chemist' probably of German extraction. He lived in a sizeable house (taxed on eight hearths) in Axe Yard, next door to the Hartlibs, whose daughter Mary he married in 1660. A minor figure in scientific circles and a friend of Robert Boyle.

S. Spoelstra on 12 Aug 2003  •  Link

Dr. Clodius supplied some very varied recipes to Robert Boyle, who noted them in his Work-diaries.
These have now been made electronically available, so that we can all try for instance Dr. Clodius' anti-scurvy medicine, made from Cochlearia hortensis. (Scurvygrass ?)

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/Boyle/workdi…

David Quidnunc on 15 Nov 2003  •  Link

Link to the Axe Yard

http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

San Diego Sarah on 11 Jul 2023  •  Link

"From the Archives of Scientific Diplomacy: Science and the Shared Interests of Samuel Hartlib’s London and Frederick Clodius’s Gottorf" -- by
Vera Keller and Leigh T. I. Penman

ABSTRACT:
Many historians have traced the accumulation of scientific archives via communication networks. Engines for communication in early modernity have included trade, the extrapolitical Republic of Letters, religious enthusiasm, and the centralization of large emerging information states.
The communication between Samuel Hartlib Sr., Rev. John Dury, Duke Friedrich III of Gottorf-Holstein, and his key agent in England, Frederick Clodius, points to a less obvious but no less important impetus — the international negotiations of smaller states.
Smaller states shaped communication networks in an international (albeit politically and religiously slanted) direction. Their networks of negotiation contributed to the internationalization of emerging science through a political and religious concept of shared interest.
While interest has been central to social studies of science, interest itself has not often been historicized within the history of science.
This case study demonstrates the co-production of science and society by tracing how period concepts of interest made science international.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu…

San Diego Sarah on 11 Jul 2023  •  Link

Frederick Clod (or Clodius) (1625 – after 1661), was a physician and "mystical chemist" of German extraction.
He lived in a sizeable house (taxed on eight hearths) in Axe Yard, London, next door to the Hartlibs, whose daughter Mary he married in 1660.
He was also a neighbour to the diarist Samuel Pepys, who mentions him several times.
He was a minor figure in scientific circles and a friend of Robert Boyle, to whom he supplied some very varied recipes.

He came to England in 1652, having been recommended to Samuel Hartlib by Johann Moriaen. He had been in the service of Frederick III of Denmark, collecting "Rarities", and himself was a native of Holstein.[5]

He presided at the wedding of his sister-in-law Nan Hartlib to Johannes Rothe in 1660. Pepys, a guest at the wedding, describes it as a social event of great magnificence. This suggests that Clod was a man of some wealth, since the Hartlibs were then living in dire poverty ("Nan will have nothing in the world" Pepys remarked), and Nan's father could not possibly have paid for the wedding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fre…