The age of Louis XIV : a history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Molière, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza: 1648-1715 Cover Image

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The age of Louis XIV : a history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Molière, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza: 1648-1715 / by Will and Ariel Durant.

Durant, Will, 1885-1981 (Author). Durant, Ariel. (Added Author).

Summary:

"A history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Molière, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton and Spinoza: 1648-1715."

Item details

ISBN: 0671012150
ISBN: 9780671012151
Physical Description: xviii, 802 pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps on lining papers ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1963.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 723-755) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The French zenith : 1643-1715. The sun rises : 1643-84 ; The crucible of faith : 1643-1715 ; The King and the arts : 1643-1715 ; Molière : 1622-73 ; The classic zenith in French literature ; Tragedy in the Netherlands : 1649-1715 -- England : 1649-1714. Cromwell : 1649-60 ; Milton : 1608-74 ; The Restoration : 1660-85 ; The Glorious Revolution : 1685-1714 ; From Dryden to Swift : 1660-1714 -- The periphery : 1648-1715. The struggle for the Baltic : 1648-1721 ; Peter the Great : 1698-1725 ; The changing empire : 1648-1715 ; The fallow south : 1648-1715 ; The Jewish enclaves : 1564-1715 -- The intellectual adventure : 1648-1715. From superstition to scholarship : 1648-1715 ; The scientific quest : 1648-1715 ; Isaac Newton : 1642-1727 ; English philosophy : 1648-1715 ; Faith and reason in France : 1648-1715 ; Spinoza : 1632-77 ; Leibniz : 1646-1716 -- France against Europe : 1683-1715. The sun sets.