The Seventeenth Century Background : : Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion / / Basil Willey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Willey, Basil,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1952]; ©1952
• Année de publication: 1952
• Langue: English
• Description matérielle: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FOREWORD --; CHAPTER I. The Rejection of Scholasticism --; CHAPTER II. Bacon and the Rehabilitation of Nature --; CHAPTER III. Sir Thomas Browne --; CHAPTER IV. On Scriptural Interpretation --; CHAPTER V. The Philosophical Quest for Truth --; CHAPTER VI. The Philosophical Quest for Truth --; CHAPTER VII. Rational Theology --; CHAPTER VIII. Rational Theology --; CHAPTER IX. Joseph Glanvill (1636-80) --; CHAPTER X. The Heroic Poem in a Scientific Age --; CHAPTER XI. John Locke --; CHAPTER XXI. POSTSCRIPT --; INDEX
• Résumé: Designed to furnish the reader of 17th century literature with an overview of the intellectual background of the period by looking at the works of Browne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Glanville, and Locke.
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231897327; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/will94166
• Accès: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Basil Willey.

Designed to furnish the reader of 17th century literature with an overview of the intellectual background of the period by looking at the works of Browne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Glanville, and Locke.