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title: 17th century
description: Events and thinkers of the history of Western philosophy of the 17th century
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  name: Graciela Paula Caldeiro
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<div data-legacy-preserved> <p>-</p><table border="0" style="background-image: url(../../d/fi/filosofia/Línea_de_tiempo/Siglo_XVII/_files/astrolabio.jpg.webp); height: 450px; text-align: center;" width="600"><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">Oh! </td><a href="https://idoneos.com/static/images/infogr/icon_1_4.png.webp"></a><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>philosopher</em><em>s</em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">historical<i></i>events&#10;</td></tr><em><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">1610<i></i><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1630</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em><a href="../334160">Bacon (1561-1626)</a></em><p></p>&#10;<p>-</p><div markdown="1" class="bluebox">Oh! <a href="../../d/fi/filosofia/Línea_de_tiempo/Siglo_XVII/_files/microscopio.jpg.webp"></a><p></p>&#10;<p>-<a href="https://idoneos.com/static/images/infogr/icon_1_0.png.webp">Oh! [</a>] (https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/372964)</p>&#10;<p><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/372964">To delve deeper into the scientific conception</a> <a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/372964"><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/372964">that begins from modernity</a> </a>&#10;</p></div><p></p>&#10;<p></p></td></tr></em><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/368334"><i>1564-1642 Galileo</i></a><em><i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/368332"><i>1571-1630 Kepler</i></a><em><i><p></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://www.idoneos.com/concepts/don-quijote-de-la-mancha">Don<em></em>Quixote</a>&#10;<em></em></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><em><i><i>1610-1643 Absolutism in France</i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><em><i><i>1603-1625 James I in England</i><p></p>&#10;<p><em></em>1618-1648 War of the 30 Years&#10;<em></em></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://microscopio.idoneos.com/"><em></em>1620 Invention of the microscope</a>&#10;<em></em></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em></td><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1630</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1640</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><a href="../334558"><i>Discards (1596-1650)</i></a><em><i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><a href="https://libros.idoneos.com/filosofia/pascal"><i>Pascal (1623-1662)</i></a><em><i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em></em>1635 Foundation of the French Academy&#10;<em></em><p></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://arte.idoneos.com/barroco/el_barroco_flamenco"><i>1640 Rubens</i></a><em><i></i></em></p>&#10;<p><em><i><i>1645 Quevedo</i></i></em></p>&#10;<p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1640</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1660</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><em><i><i><a href="../335888">Spinoza (1632-1677)</a></i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><em><i><i>1654 Cronwell</i><p></p>&#10;<p><em></em>1660 Royal Society&#10;<em></em></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1660</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1680</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><a href="../335888"><i>Hobbes (1588-1679)</i></a><em><i><p></p>&#10;<p>-</p><div markdown="1" class="bluebox"><a href="https://idoneos.com/static/images/infogr/icon_1_0.png.webp">Oh! [</a>] (.. Gnoseolog% C 3% aA_in_modernity)<p></p>&#10;<p><a href="../Gnoseolog%C3%ADa_en_la_modernidad">Deepening the gnoseological problem in modernity </a>&#10;</p></div>&#10;</i></em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em><i><i>1660-1715 Louis XIV (France)</i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><em><i><i>1660-1685 Charles II (England)</i><p></p>&#10;<p><em></em>1664-1675 Differential calculation&#10;<em></em></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><em><i></i></em><em><a href="https://arte.idoneos.com/barroco/el_barroco_holandes#rembrandt_van_rijn_(1605-1669"><i>1669 Rembrandt</i></a>)<em><i></i></em></em><em><i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><a href="https://arte.idoneos.com/barroco/el_barroco_espanol#diego_velzaquez_(1599-1660"><i>1660 Velázquez</i></a><em><i>)<p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1680</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1700</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td> <td style="border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><em><i><a href="../Gnoseolog%C3%ADa_en_la_modernidad"></a> </i><i><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/la_consolidacion_de_la_revolucion_cientifica_en_el_siglo_xvii"><em><i><i> </i></i></em></a></i></em><a href="../Gnoseolog%C3%ADa_en_la_modernidad"><em><i><em><i><a href="../Gnoseolog%C3%ADa_en_la_modernidad"><em><i><em><i><i><a href="../Gnoseolog%C3%ADa_en_la_modernidad"><em><i><em><i></i></em></i></em></a></i></i></em></i></em></a></i></em></i></em></a><em><i><a href="../Gnoseolog%C3%ADa_en_la_modernidad"><em><em><i> </i></em></em></a></i></em><em><i><a href="../Gnoseolog%C3%ADa_en_la_modernidad"><em><i><em><i><em><i><i></i></i></em></i></em></i></em></a><p></p>&#10;<ul>&#10;<li>Oh! <a href="../../d/fi/filosofia/Línea_de_tiempo/Siglo_XVII/_files/newton1.jpg.webp"></a></li>&#10;</ul>&#10;<p></p></i></em><em><i></i><i><a href="../Gnoseolog%C3%ADa_en_la_modernidad"><i>Locke (1632-1704)<em><i></i></em><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></a></i></em><a href="../335755"><i>Leibniz (1646-1716)</i></a><em><i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><a href="../339135"><i>Berkeley (1685-1753)</i></a><em><i><p></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://idoneos.com/static/images/infogr/icon_1_0.png.webp"><em>Hume (1711-1776)</em><div markdown="1" class="bluebox">! [</div></a> To deepen the scientific consolidation of the 17th century&#10;</p></i></em></td></tr></table><p></p><p><td style="border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><em><i><i>1679 Habeas Corpus (England)</i></i></em></td></p><p><em><i><i>1680 Whigs and Tories (England)</i></i></em></p><p><em></em>1688 Glorious Revolution (England)&#10;<em></em></p><p><em><i><i>1689 </i>Declaration of Rights<i>(England) </i></i></em></p><p><em><i><i>1687 <a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/el_metodo_de_isaac_newton">Newton</a>: </i>Philosophiae natruralis pincipia mathematica<i></i></i></em></p><p><em><i><i>1696 Bernouilli: Calculation of variations</i></i></em></p><p></p></div>