 He aimed to set up a Pansophic College, a precursor of later academic institutes He wrote his ideas for this in a tract "Via lucis", written 1641/2 in London; he had to leave because the English Civil War was breaking out, and this work was eventually printed in 1668, in Amsterdam.The term was not original, having been applied by Bartolomeo Barbaro of Padua in his "De omni scibili libri quadraginta