This study is a biography of Henry Stubbe. The older view has it that at the Restoration Stubbe renounced his radical past and became the enemy of scientific progress and a reactionary defender of church and monarchy. Professor Jacob shows instead that Stubbe continued to espouse radical views after 1660 by devious means.

A biography of Henry Stubbe, 1632 76, classicist, polemicist, physician and philosopher.