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The collection became an invaluable research tool during the flowering of 17th-century European philosophy, the " Age of Reason ".

* 17th-century philosophy

* Transcendent theosophy, a school of Islamic philosophy founded by the 17th-century Persian philosopher Mulla Sadra

Early 17th-century philosophy is often called the Age of Reason or Age of Rationalism and is considered to succeed the Renaissance philosophy era and precede the Age of Enlightenment.

In the West, 17th-century philosophy is usually taken to start with the work of René Descartes, who set much of the agenda as well as much of the methodology for those who came after him.

From 1885 to 1887 Pater published four new imaginary portraits in Macmillan's Magazine, each set at a turning-point in the history of ideas or art – ' A Prince of Court Painters ' ( 1885 ) ( on Watteau and Jean-Baptiste Pater ), ' Sebastian van Storck ' ( 1886 ) ( 17th-century Dutch society and painting, and the philosophy of Spinoza ), ' Denys L ' Auxerrois ' ( 1886 ) ( the medieval cathedral-builders ), and ' Duke Carl of Rosenmold ' ( 1887 ) ( the German Renaissance ).

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17th-century philosophy is dominated by the need to organize philosophy on rational, skeptical, logical and axiomatic grounds, such as the work of René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Thomas Hobbes.

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* 17th-century philosophy, as a successor of the Renaissance and a predecessor to the Age of Enlightenment

After Descartes, the concept of perfection as a principal concept in philosophy was upheld by other great 17th-century thinkers.

Thus perfection, which during the Middle Ages could be a property of any individual being, in 17th-century philosophy became as well, and indeed preeminently, a property of God.

A 17th-century Italian map showing a large " Kingdom of Barantola or Boutan " bordering on Nepal and Tibet, as well as, surprisingly, Yunnan, Sichuan, and the Western Xia | Kingdom of Tanguts

In what some sociologists term the " bourgeois family ", which arose out of typical 16th-and 17th-century European households and is often considered the " traditional Western " structure, the father's role has been somewhat limited.

In what some sociologists term the " bourgeois family ", which arose out of typical 16th-and 17th-century European households and is considered by some the " traditional Western " structure, the father's role has been somewhat limited.

In Holland, the Dutch Republic ’ s 17th-century ( 1609 – 1672 ) mercantilist dominion was a first instance of global, commercial hegemony, made feasible with its technological development of wind power and its Four Great Fleets, for the efficient production and delivery of goods and services, which, in turn, made possible its Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade ; in France, King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ) and ( Emperor ) Napoleon I ( 1799 – 1815 ) established French hegemony via economic, cultural, and military domination of most of Continental Europe.

Included are two of only three, 17th-century Cremonese stringed instruments preserved in the world today in unaltered condition.

The Museum has the most important holdings in the world on the history of Britain at sea comprising more than two million items, including maritime art ( both British and 17th-century Dutch ), cartography, manuscripts including official public records, ship models and plans, scientific and navigational instruments, instruments for time-keeping and astronomy ( based at the Observatory ).

The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated from a literal reading of the Bible by James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh ( Church of Ireland ).

The 17th-century historian Ibn Abi Dinar used Musa's decline in fortune as an object lesson in the vagaries of human existence, with some exaggerations: " Musa, who had conquered half the inhabited world, who had acquired so many riches, died in poverty, begging alms from passers-by, after having been abandoned by the last of his servants.

His late 17th-century / early 18th-century exploits as a street urchin, mercenary soldier, vagabond, errand-boy, merchant, galley-slave, pirate, petty despot, spy, coiner, and terrorist in the employ of King Louis XIV are the subject, in the world of Stephenson's epic, not only of much of the text proper but also of widely-popular picaresque novels read by various characters in the story.

In " The Complete Calvin And Hobbes ," Watterson does not name the inspiration for Calvin's character, but he does say Calvin is named for " a 16th-century theologian who believed in predestination ," and Hobbes for " a 17th-century philosopher with a dim view of human nature.

Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.

However, the word " deism ", as it is understood today, is generally used to refer to the movement toward natural theology or freethinking that occurred in 17th-century Europe, and specifically in Britain.

In South Africa, the right to armorial bearings is also determined by Roman Dutch law, due to its origins as a 17th-century colony of the Netherlands.

The rule is named after the 17th-century French mathematician Guillaume de l ' Hôpital, who published the rule in his book Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l ' Intelligence des Lignes Courbes ( literal translation: Analysis of the Infinitely Small for the Understanding of Curved Lines ) ( 1696 ), the first textbook on differential calculus.

Stefan Czarniecki was a 17th-century hetman ( military commander ), famous for his role in driving the Swedish army out of Poland after an occupation that had left the country in ruins and is remembered by Poles as the Deluge.

Within the outer edge of the enclosed area is a circle of 56 pits ( 13 ), each about a metre ( 3 ' 3 ") in diameter, known as the Aubrey holes after John Aubrey, the 17th-century antiquarian who was thought to have first identified them.

This tale was inspired by the atmospheric candlelit scenes of the 17th-century Dutch painter Godfried Schalcken, who is the hero of the story.

Grettir is ready to fight in this illustration from a 17th-century Iceland ic manuscript

The English translation by the 17th-century poet John Dryden is another important version.

The title of the novel is paraphrased in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake at 203. 21 as " Nanon L ' Escaut ", which also refers to the 17th-century French courtesan Ninon de l ' Enclos and to the Escaut River.

* Tradescant ( TR ) ( 50 boys, 1976 ) is named for John Tradescant the younger, the 17th-century Royal gardener and plant collector, an alumnus of the school, whose father John laid out gardens nearby.

Pierrot () is a stock character of pantomime and Commedia dell ' Arte whose origins are in the late 17th-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne ; the name is a hypocorism of Pierre ( Peter ), via the suffix-ot.

One of the centerpieces of the collection is a partial recreation of the 17th-century ostrog ( fortress ) of Ilimsk, which consists of the original Spasskaya Tower and the Church of Our Lady of Kazan transported from the flooded ostrog in the mid-1970s, to which an exact modern copy of another tower of the ostrog and the Southern wall of the fortress were added in the early 2000s.

The Swedish colonization of the Americas included a 17th-century colony on the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, as well as two possessions in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th century.

Gaultier's output, as is to be expected from a 17th-century French lutenist, consists mainly of dance suites for the lute.

This story is identical to the European fable The Farmer and the Devil, cited in many 17th-century French works.

It is regarded as a source of information on 17th-century music, especially French music and musicians, to rival even the works of Pietro Cerone.

Surrounding the window is Archimedes by Francisco Zurbarán, and Two Bishops of the 17th-century German school.

* The window opening to the West is surrounded by two 17th-century wooden caryatids.

La Salle County is named for René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a 17th-century French explorer.

Hennepin County is a county located in the U. S. state of Minnesota, named in honor of the 17th-century explorer Father Louis Hennepin.

Peru offers a branch of cinchona to Science ( from a 17th-century engraving ): Cinchona, the source of Peruvian bark, is an early remedy against malaria.