The Seventeenth Century 1600-1715

<b>In this revised edition edited by Andrew Loskey readers are presented with information on the characteristics and intellectual developments of the seventeenth century.</b> <p/><i>The Seventeenth Century 1600 - 1715 </i>examines how the seventeenth century was pre-eminently an age of intellectual ferment characterized by new scientific systems new political and social thought the introduction of modern warfare and a continuous quest for order and stability. <p/>Major selections included in this volume are from sources such as Descartes' <i>Discourse on Method </i>and <i>Passions of the Soul </i>Hobbes' <i>Leviathan </i>and Locke's <i>Second Treatise on Government.</i>