Education
He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, but may not have graduated.
He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, but may not have graduated.
His survey of land in Ireland was of land claimed by Oliver Cromwell under the Acting of Settlement. Worsley was from 1651 a physician in Cromwell"s army, but took to surveying around 1653. His work was too rough-and-ready to be of practical help to arranging land grants to soldiers, and William Petty took over.
He was a major figure of the Invisible College of the 1640s.
Worseley associated with the circle around Samuel Hartlib and John Dury, and on their behalf visited Johann Rudolph Glauber in 1648-1649. Worsley followed the theories of Michael Sendivogius and Clovis Hesteau.
He was a projector in the manufacture of saltpeter (1646). Later, probably in the mid-1650s, he wrote De nitro theses quaedam.
He was also probably heterodox in religion.