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100 1 $aVann, Richard T.,$ecomp.
245 10 $aCentury of genius: European thought, 1600-1700,$cedited by Richard T. Vann.
260 0 $aEnglewood Cliffs, N.J.,$bPrentice-Hall$c[1967]
300 $axi, 179 p.$c21 cm.
490 0 $aSources of civilization in the West
490 0 $aSpectrum book
505 0 $aThe 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.
520 $aIn 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, 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?"
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Modern$y17th century.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aVann, Richard T.$tCentury of genius: European thought, 1600-1700.$dEnglewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1967]$w(OCoLC)644466090
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