Culverwel

Culverwel, NATHANAEL, one of the Cambridge Platonists, was born in Middlesex, and entered Emmanuel College in 1633. He graduated B.A. in 1636, M.A. in 1640, was elected fellow in 1642, and died not later than 1651. In 1652 was published An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature, with several other treatises—viz. the Schism, the Act of Oblivion, the Child's Return, the Panting Soul, Mount Ebal, the White Stone; Spiritual Optics; and the Worth of Souls. An edition of the Light of Nature was issued in 1857, edited by Dr John Brown of Edinburgh, with a critical essay by Principal Cairns. It is a treatise of great power and learning, written in a vivid and vigorous style, and is a work not unworthy of the college that produced Cudworth, Whicheote, and John Smith. See Tulloch's Rational Theology, vol. ii. (1874), pp. 410–26.