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 not appear to have been intimately acquainted with his works.

Far more immediate was the influence of Andreæ, to whose Utopia, Reipublicæ Christiano-Politica Descriptio, and the educational reforms described in it, Comenius’ debt is very great. Andreæ, imbued with the scientific spirit that was awakening throughout Europe, wished to add both mathematics and natural science to the ordinary humanist curriculum, and was undoubtedly a strong factor in the development of Comenius’ “modern side” tendencies.

But it is to John Henry Alsted, his friend and teacher at Herborn, that the debt is greatest. In his Encyclopædia of all the Sciences, published in 1630, Alsted included a very complete treatise on Education, and, though many of the propositions brought forward resemble those of Ratke, it does not appear that they were directly borrowed from him. Indeed, in the list of writers on Education at the beginning of Alsted’s Consilarius Academicus, Ratke’s name does not