Historians and Philosophers : A collated web index : Early Modern Period (1501 - 1750)

A collated web index of significant
Historians and Philosophers
Early Modern Period (1501 - 1750)

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NOTE: Deceased philosophers and historians are listed chronologically by year of death, whereas living individuals are listed by year of birth.

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Italian statesman and philosopher

Machiavelli biography (HTML at Lucidcafe)

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (1466-1536)
Dutch theologian and philosopher

All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things (HTML at Sewanee)
Complete On-Line Works. (HTML at Sewanee)
The Praise of Folly [illustrated HTML at Sewanee]
Erasmus biography (HTML at utm.edu)

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
Italian philosopher

(no links at present)

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
English philosopher

The Essays (text at vt.edu)
New Atlantis
- HTML at Virginia
- text at Wiretap

René Descartes (1596-1650)
French philosopher

Discourse on Method (text at Wiretap)
Meditations on the First Philosophy (HTML at wright.edu)
Descartes biography (HTML at Lucidcafe)
Descartes biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

Baruch Spinoza (Benedict de Spinoza) (1632-1677)
Dutch philosopher

No links at present

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
English philosopher

De Cive (text files at McMaster)
The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (text at McMaster)
Leviathan (text at vt.edu)
A Brief Life of Thomas Hobbes, by John Aubrey (text at McMaster)

John Locke (1632-1704)
English philosopher

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (6th edition) (HTML at Columbia)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (text at vt.edu)
Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money (text at McMaster)
A Letter Concerning Toleration
- HTML at utm.edu
- text at vt.edu
Of the Conduct of the Understanding (HTML at Columbia)
Second Treatise of Government (text at Wiretap)
Short Observations on a Printed Paper, Entitled "For Encouraging the Coining Silver Money in England, and After For Keeping it Here" (text at McMaster)
Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money (text at McMaster)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
German philosopher and mathematician

The Monadology (text at vt.edu)
Leibniz biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

Giambattista Vico (1668-1744)
Italian historian and philosopher

Vico biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746)
British philosopher

Hutcheson biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

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