Lives in the 17th Century

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INTRODUCTION

Human history as cultural history

We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a growth to which all nations and ethnic groups have contributed.

This book is part of a series on cultural history. Here is a list of the other books in the series that have, until now, been completed:

• Lives in the 18th Century

• Lives in the 19th Century

• Lives in Biology

• Lives of Some Great Novelists

• Lives in Mathematics

• Lives in Exploration

• Lives in Education

• Lives in Poetry

• Lives in Painting

• Lives in Engineering

• Lives in Astronomy

• Lives in Chemistry

• Lives in Medicine

• Lives in Ecology

• Lives in Physics

• Lives in Economics

• Lives in the Peace Movement

The pdf files of these books may be freely downloaded and circulated from here, here and here.

Read the entire book above or download it here.

We thank John Scales Avery, a renowned intellectual, EACPE board member, and theoretical chemist at the University of Copenhagen, for giving us permission to reproduce his latest book for EACPE.