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Complete List of Contents
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Abahai
{ayn}Abb{amacr}s the Great
Alden, John
Alexander VII
Alexis
Andrewes, Lancelot
Anne of Austria
Arnauld, Angélique
Aurangzeb
Avvakum Petrovich
Bacon, Nathaniel
Baxter, Richard
Bayle, Pierre
Becher, Johann Joachim
Behn, Aphra
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
Bernoulli Family, The
Betterton, Thomas
Biddle, John
Blake, Robert
Böhme, Jakob
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso
Borromini, Francesco
Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne
Bourgeois, Louyse
Bourgeoys, Saint Marguerite
Boyle, Robert
Bracegirdle, Mrs. Anne
Bradford, William
Bradstreet, Anne
Brent, Margaret
Browne, Sir Thomas
Buckingham, First Duke of
Bunyan, John
Burbage, Richard
Burnet, Thomas
Burton, Robert
Caccini, Francesca
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Callot, Jacques
Calvert, George
Cameron, Richard
Campanella, Tommaso
Campion, Thomas
Canonicus
Carr, Robert
Cassini, Gian Domenico
Catherine of Braganza
Champlain, Samuel de
Charles I
Charles II (of England)
Charles II (of Spain)
Charles X Gustav
Chen Shu
Chevreuse, Duchesse de
Chongzhen
Christina
Clarendon, First Earl of
Claude Lorrain
Coke, Sir Edward
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
Condé, The Great
Conway, Anne
Corelli, Arcangelo
Corneille, Pierre
Cotton, John
Cowley, Abraham
Crashaw, Richard
Cromwell, Oliver
Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dampier, William
Davenport, John
Davies, Lady Eleanor
Dekker, Thomas
Descartes, René
Donne, John
Dorgon
Drayton, Michael
Dryden, John
Dyck, Sir Anthony van
Eliot, John
Elizabeth of Bohemia
Elizabeth Stuart
Evelyn, John
Fabricius, David and Johannes
Fairfax, Third Baron
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-
Ferdinand II
Fermat, Pierre de
Ferrar, Nicholas
Fletcher, John
Fludd, Robert
Fox, George
Frederick Henry
Frederick William, the Great Elector
Frederick V
Frescobaldi, Girolamo
Galileo
Garzoni, Giovanna
Gassendi, Pierre
Gentileschi, Artemisia
Gibbons, Orlando
Góngora y Argote, Luis de
Gournay, Marie le Jars de
Graci n y Morales, Baltasar
Gregory, James
Grimaldi, Francesco Maria
Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von
Grotius, Hugo
Guarini, Guarino
Guericke, Otto von
Gustavus II Adolphus
Guyon, Madame
Gwyn, Nell
Hale, Matthew
Halley, Edmond
Hals, Frans
Harvey, William
Hein, Piet
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Henrietta Maria
Herbert, George
Herrick, Robert
Hevelius, Johannes and Elisabetha
Heywood, Thomas
Hishikawa Moronobu
Hobbes, Thomas
Hooke, Robert
Hooker, Thomas
Horrocks, Jeremiah
Hudson, Henry
Hutchinson, Anne
Huygens, Christiaan
Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne d'
Ihara Saikaku
Innocent XI
Izumo no Okuni
Jah{amacr}ng{imacr}r
James I
James II
Jansen, Cornelius Otto
Jogues, Saint Isaac
John of Austria
John III Sobieski
John IV
Jolliet, Louis
Jones, Inigo
Jonson, Ben
Kämpfer, Engelbert
Kangxi
Kara Mustafa Pa{scedil}a, Merzifonlu
Kâtib Çelebî
Kepler, Johannes
Khmelnytsky, Bohdan
Kidd, William
Kino, Eusebio Francisco
Komensk , Jan
Kösem Sultan
La Bruyère, Jean de
La Fayette, Madame de
La Fontaine, Jean de
Lambert, John
La Rochefoucauld, François de
La Salle, Sieur de
La Tour, Georges de
Laud, William
Laval, François
Lawes, Henry
Le Brun, Charles
Leeds, First Duke of
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Leisler, Jacob
Lenclos, Ninon de
Le Nôtre, André
Leopold I
Lerma, Duke de
Le Vau, Louis
Lilburne, John
Lippershey, Hans
Liu Yin
Locke, John
Longueville, Duchesse de
Louis XIII
Louis XIV
Louvois, Marquis de
Lovelace, Richard
Lower, Richard
Ludlow, Roger
Lully, Jean-Baptiste
Maintenon, Madame de
Maisonneuve, Sieur de
Malherbe, François de
Malpighi, Marcello
Manasseh ben Israel
Mancini Sisters, The
Mansart, François
Mansart, Jules Hardouin-
Maria Celeste
Marie de l'Incarnation
Marie de Médicis
Marie-Thérèse
Marquette, Jacques
Marvell, Andrew
Mary of Modena
Mary II
Massasoit
Matsuo Bash{omacr}
Maurice of Nassau
Mazarin, Jules
Mazepa, Ivan Stepanovich
Medici, Cosimo II de'
Mersenne, Marin
Metacom
Middleton, Thomas
Milton, John
Minuit, Peter
Molière
Monck, George
Monmouth, Duke of
Monteverdi, Claudio
Montpensier, Duchesse de
Morozov, Boris Ivanovich
Muggleton, Lodowick
Murad IV
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban
Mustafa I
Newcastle, Duchess of
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nikon
Njinga
Nurse, Rebecca
Oates, Titus
Ogata K{omacr}rin
Olivares, Count-Duke of
O'More, Rory
Opechancanough
Oxenstierna, Axel
Pachelbel, Johann
Papin, Denis
Pascal, Blaise
Paterson, William
Paul V
Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de
Penn, William
Pepys, Samuel
Perrault, Charles
Petty, Sir William
Philip III
Philip IV
Philips, Katherine
Piscopia, Elena Cornaro
Pocahontas
Poussin, Nicolas
Powhatan
Pride, Thomas
Pufendorf, Samuel von
Purcell, Henry
Pym, John
Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco Gómez de
Racine, Jean
Radisson, Pierre Esprit
Rambouillet, Marquise de
Ray, John
Razin, Stenka
Rembrandt
Richelieu, Cardinal de
Romanov, Michael
Rose of Lima, Saint
Rowlandson, Mary White
Rubens, Peter Paul
Rupert, Prince
Ruyter, Michiel Adriaanszoon de
Santorio, Santorio
Savery, Thomas
Savile, Sir George
Schickard, Wilhelm
Schomberg, Friedrich Hermann
Schurman, Anna Maria van
Schütz, Heinrich
Scudéry, Madeleine de
Seki K{omacr}wa
Sévigné, Madame de
Shabbetai Tzevi
Shaftesbury, First Earl of
Shah Jahan
Shirley, James
Shunzhi
Siegemundin, Justine
Sigismund III Vasa
Sirani, Elisabetta
{Sacute}iv{amacr}j{imacr}
Smith, John
Sophia
S{omacr}tatsu
Spinoza, Baruch
Squanto
Standish, Miles
Steno, Nicolaus
Strafford, First Earl of
Strozzi, Barbara
Stuyvesant, Peter
Suckling, Sir John
Sully, Duke de
Swammerdam, Jan
Sydenham, Thomas
Tasman, Abel Janszoon
Tekakwitha, Kateri
Tianqi
Tirso de Molina
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Torricelli, Evangelista
Torstenson, Lennart
Tourneur, Cyril
Tromp, Maarten and Cornelis
Turenne, Viscount de
Urban VIII
Ussher, James
Vane, Sir Henry, the Younger
Vasily Shuysky
Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de
Vega Carpio, Lope de
Vel zquez, Diego
Vermeer, Jan
Vieira, António
Vincent de Paul, Saint
Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel von
Wallis, John
Wang Fuzhi
Ward, Mary
Webster, John
William III
Williams, Roger
Willis, Thomas
Winstanley, Gerrard
Winthrop, John
Wren, Sir Christopher
Yui Sh{omacr}setsu
Zheng Chenggong
Zurbar n, Francisco de
Rulers and Dynasties
Chronological List of Entries
Category Index
Geographical Index
Personages Index
Subject Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Biography -- 17th century.