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The medium and the message -- Reason, sense, and science -- Descartes' search for method -- Locke and the foundations of empiricism -- Law, history, and politics -- Hobbes and the science of politics -- The rights of man and of merchant -- Defenders of the faith -- A chronological table In Century of Genius: European Thought 1600-1700, Richard T. Vann links selections from the writings of such thinkers as Galileo, Bacon, Hobbes, Pascal, and Newton with interpretative commentary to show how seventeenth-century discoveries in science and mathematics not only changed the way in which men viewed the sun and the fall of apples from a tree, but also influenced forever afterward men's view of themselves. In Vann's interpretation, the spirit of the age was one of confidence and quest, given perhaps its most eloquent expression in Milton's serene assurance that "though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field ... let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?". In Century of Genius: European Thought 1600-1700, Richard T. Vann links selections from the writings of such thinkers as Galileo, Bac

Author

Richard T. Vann

Publisher

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall

Published

1967

Language

EN

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24