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Francis Bacon "Of Envy"
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Galileo "Dialogue on Two Chief World Systems"
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Rene Descartes "Discourse on Method"
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Correspondence b/w Descartes and Elizabeth of Bohemia
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Thomas Hobbes "Leviathan"
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Royal Society of London founded
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Margaret Cavendish "A Blazing World" and "Further Observations on Experimental Philosophy"
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Academie des Sciences founded
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Cavendish appears before the Royal Society
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Baruch Spinoza Tractatus Theologico-Politicus"
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Baruch Spinoza "Ethics"
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John Locke in exile
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Rene Descartes "Rules for the Direction of the Mind"
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Rene Descartes "Rules for the Direction of the Mind" published (drafted 1628)
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Relations between Catholics and protestants become tense
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Leibniz "Discourse on Metaphysics"
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England's Glorious Revolution
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John Locke "Letter Concerning Toleration"
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English Bill of Rights
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John Locke's "2 Treatises on Government" is licensed to be printed, published in 1690
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William Dampier's "A New Voyage Round the World" published
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Third Earl of Shaftesbury "An Essay upon the Freedom of Wit and Humour"
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Josesph Butler "Upon Resentment"
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George Berkeley "Alciphron"
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David Hume "A Treatise of Human Nature" Pt I
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David Hume "A Treatise of Human Nature" Pt II
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David Hume "Of Love and Marriage"
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David Hume "Of Essay Writing"
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Emilie Du Chatalet "Discourse on Happieness"
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David Hume "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"
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David Hume "A Dialogue"
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Mary Wollstonecraft "Mary: A Fiction"
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Mary Astell "Some Reflections Upon Marriage" and "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"