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This encyclopedia entry provides information about the life, heritage, and rupture with the tradition, innovative and original aspects, and impact and legacy of Peter Heylyn, a seventeenth-century theological and geographical historian.
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Heylyn, Peter. 1621. Microcosmus. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short.
Heylyn, Peter. 1652. Cosmographie in four books. … 4 vols. London: Henry Seile.
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Barnard, John. 1683. Theologo-historicus, or, the true life of the most reverend divine and excellent historian Peter Heylyn. London: Daniel Brown.
Heylyn, Peter. 2004. The Oxford dictionary of national biography. Oxford: Macmillan.
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Craft, P. (2016). Heylyn, Peter. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_506-1
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