17Th Century category: 857 books
by John Acton
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
John Acton weaves a fantastic history spanning from the Renaissance to the American Revolution.
Featuring:
Beginning Of The Modern State
The New World
The Renaissance
Luther
The Counter-Reformation
Calvin And Henry Viii.
Philip Ii, Mary Stuart, And Elizabeth
The Huguenots And The League
Henry...
Tractatus de globis et eorum usu. A Treatise descriptive of the Globes constructed by Emery Molyneux
Tractatus de globis et eorum usu. A Treatise descriptive of the Globes constructed by Emery Molyneux
And published in 1592, by Robert Hues. With 'Sailing Directions for the Circumnavigation of England, and for a Voyage to the Straits of Gibraltar, from a 15th Century MS'
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The text is edited, with 'Annotated Indices and an Introduction'. In addition to the treatise, the volume contains 'Sailing Directions for the Circumnavigation of England, and for a Voyage to the Straits of Gibraltar, from a 15th Century MS' which originally appeared as Volume 79(b) in the series....
The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies
With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies, during the Seventeenth Century, preserved in the India Office. And the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to seek the North-West Passage
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Sir Henry Middleton, Thomas Love, Nicholas Downton, and Ralph Cross. With a calendar of ships' journals of the seventeenth century and a list of ships employed by the East India Company in the same period. For a revised edition of...
Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century
Including Hessel Gerritsz. 'Histoire du pays nommé Spitsberghe,' 1613 and Jacob Segersz. van der Brugge 'Journael of dagh register,' Amsterdam, 1634
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
'Early Dutch and English Voyages' translated into English, for the first time, by Basil H. Soulsby, F.S.A., of the British Museum; Segersz's text translated into English, for the first time, by J. A. J. de Villiers, of the British Museum. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Sir W. Martin Conway,...
The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany
Medicine and Botany
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded...
Science in the Public Sphere
A history of lay knowledge and expertise
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Science in the Public Sphere presents a broad yet detailed picture of the history of science popularization from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. Global in focus, it provides an original theoretical framework for analysing the political load of science as an instrument of cultural hegemony...
by Rif Winfield, Stephen S Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly in the 1650s and a virtually new Marine Royale had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661\. Thereafter, Louis XIV"s navy grew rapidly to become the...
Calvin Meets Voltaire
The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685–1798
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In 1754, Voltaire, one of the most famous and provocative writers of the period, moved to the city of Geneva. Little time passed before he instigated conflict with the clergy and city as he publicly maligned the memory of John Calvin, promoted the culture of the French theater, and incited political...
Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603
Authority, Influence and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity,...
James Ussher and John Bramhall
The Theology and Politics of Two Irish Ecclesiastics of the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book examines the lives of two leading Irish ecclesiastics, James Ussher (1581-1656) and John Bramhall (1594-1663). Both men were key players in the religious struggles that shook the British Isles during the first half of the seventeenth century, and their lives and works provide important insights...
The Rule of Law, 1603-1660
Crowns, Courts and Judges
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book measures contemporary attitudes to the law - within and outside of the legal profession – to see how c17th century Englishmen defined the role of law in their society, to see what their expectations were of the law and how these expectations helped shape political debate – and ultimately determined political decisions – over the course of a very turbulent century.
by Martin Hume
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
"I lighted upon great files and heaps of papers and writings of all sorts.... In searching and turning over whereof, whilst I laboured till I sweat again, covered all over with dust, to gather fit matter together ... that noble Lord died, and my industry began to flag and wax cold in the business."
Thus...
Women in Transnational History
Connecting the Local and the Global
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women’s history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women’s lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories...
by Joseph Bergin
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Rich in detail and broad in scope, this majestic book is the first to reveal the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. Joseph Bergin begins with the Wars of Religion, which proved to be longer and more violent in France than elsewhere...