TY - BOOK AU - Willey,Basil TI - The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion SN - 9780231941662 PY - 1952///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/will94166 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231897327.jpg ER -