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Great Lives from History: The 17th Century

Great Lives from History: The 17th Century
Table of Contents

A
Abahai
Abbās the Great
Alden, John (new)
Alexander VII (new)
Alexis (new)
Andrewes, Lancelot
Anne of Austria (new)
Arnauld, Angélique (new)
Aurangzeb
Avvakum Petrovich (new)

B
Bacon, Nathaniel
Baxter, Richard
Bayle, Pierre
Becher, Johann Joachim (new)
Behn, Aphra (new)
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
Bernoulli, Jakob I
Betterton, Thomas (new)
Biddle, John
Blake, Robert
Böhme, Jakob
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (new)
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso (new)
Borromini, Francesco
Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne
Bourgeois, Louyse (new)
Bourgeoys, Saint Marguerite (new)
Boyle, Robert
Bracegirdle, Mrs. Anne (new)
Bradford, William
Bradstreet, Anne
Brent, Margaret (new)
Browne, Sir Thomas (new)
Buckingham, George Villiers, First Duke of
Bunyan, John
Burbage, Richard (new)
Burnet, Thomas (new)
Burton, Robert (new)

C
Caccini, Francesca (new)
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Callot, Jacques (new)
Calvert, George (new)
Cameron, Richard
Campanella, Tommaso (new)
Campion, Thomas (new)
Canonicus (new)
Carr, Robert (new)
Cassini, Gian Domenico (new)
Catherine of Braganza (new)
Champlain, Samuel de
Charles I
Charles II (of England)
Charles II (of Spain) (new)
Charles X Gustav (new)
Chen Shu (new)
Chevreuse, Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de (new)
Chongzhen (new)
Christina
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, First Earl of
Claude Lorrain
Coke, Sir Edward
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
Condé, The Great
Conway, Anne (new)
Corelli, Arcangelo
Corneille, Pierre
Cotton, John
Cowley, Abraham (new)
Crashaw, Richard (new)
Cromwell, Oliver
Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la
Cyrano de Bergerac

D
Dampier, William
Davenport, John (new)
Davies, Lady Eleanor (new)
Dekker, Thomas (new)
Descartes, René
Donne, John
Dorgon
Drayton, Michael (new)
Dryden, John
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (new)

E
Eliot, John
Elizabeth of Bohemia (new)
Elizabeth Stuart (new)
Evelyn, John (new)

F
Fabricius, David and Johannes (new)
Fairfax, Third Baron
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe- (new)
Ferdinand II
Fermat, Pierre de
Ferrar, Nicholas
Fletcher, John (new)
Fludd, Robert (new)
Fox, George
Frederick Henry
Frederick V (new)
Frederick William, the Great Elector
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (new)

G
Galileo
Garzoni, Giovanna (new)
Gassendi, Pierre (new)
Gentileschi, Artemisia (new)
Gibbons, Orlando (new)
Góngora y Argote, Luis de (new)
Gournay, Marie le Jars de (new)
Gracián y Morales, Baltasar (new)
Gregory, James (new)
Grimaldi, Francesco Maria (new)
Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von (new)
Grotius, Hugo
Guarini, Guarino
Guericke, Otto von
Gustavus II Adolphus
Guyon, Madame (new)
Gwyn, Nell (new)

H
Hale, Matthew
Halley, Edmond
Hals, Frans
Harvey, William
Hein, Piet
Helmont, Jan Baptista van (new)
Henrietta Maria (new)
Herbert, George (new)
Herrick, Robert (new)
Hevelius, Johannes and Elisabetha (new)
Heywood, Thomas (new)
Hishikawa Moronobu (new)
Hobbes, Thomas
Hooke, Robert (new)
Hooker, Thomas (new)
Horrocks, Jeremiah (new)
Hudson, Henry
Hutchinson, Anne (new)
Huygens, Christiaan

I
Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne (new)
Ihara Saikaku (new)
Innocent XI (new)

J
Jahāngīr (new)
James I
James II
Jansen, Cornelius Otto
Jogues, Saint Isaac (new)
John III Sobieski
John IV (new)
John of Austria (new)
Jolliet, Louis
Jones, Inigo
Jonson, Ben

K
Kämpfer, Engelbert
Kangxi
Kara Mustafa Paşa, Merzifonlu (new)
Kâtib Çelebî (new)
Kepler, Johannes
Khmelnytsky, Bohdan (new)
Kidd, William
Kino, Eusebio Francisco (new)
Komenský, Jan (new)
Kösem Sultan (new)

L
La Bruyère, Jean de (new)
La Fayette, Madame de (new)
La Fontaine, Jean de
La Rochefoucauld, François de (new)
La Salle, Sieur de
La Tour, Georges de (new)
Lambert, John
Laud, William
Laval, François
Lawes, Henry (new)
Le Brun, Charles (new)
Le Nôtre, André
Le Vau, Louis (new)
Leeds, Thomas Osborne, First Duke of
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Leisler, Jacob (new)
Lenclos, Ninon de (new)
Leopold I
Lerma, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke de (new)
Lilburne, John (new)
Lippershey, Hans
Liu Yin (new)
Locke, John
Longueville, Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, Duchesse de (new)
Louis XIII
Louis XIV
Louvois, François-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de
Lovelace, Richard (new)
Lower, Richard (new)
Ludlow, Roger (new)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (new)

M
Maintenon, Madame de (new)
Maisonneuve, Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de (new)
Malherbe, François de (new)
Malpighi, Marcello
Manasseh ben Israel (new)
Mancini Sisters, The (new)
Mansart, François
Mansart, Jules Hardouin-
Maria Celeste (new)
Marie de Médicis (new)
Marie-Thérèse (new)
Marquette, Jacques (new)
Marvell, Andrew (new)
Mary II (new)
Mary of Modena (new)
Mary of the Incarnation (new)
Massasoit
Matsuo Bashō
Maurice of Nassau (new)
Mazarin, Jules
Mazepa, Ivan Stepanovich (new)
Medici, Cosimo II de' (new)
Mersenne, Marin
Metacom
Middleton, Thomas (new)
Milton, John
Minuit, Peter (new)
Molière
Monck, George
Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of
Monteverdi, Claudio
Montpensier, Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, Duchesse de (new)
Morozov, Boris Ivanovich (new)
Muggleton, Lodowick (new)
Murad IV (new)
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (new)
Mustafa I (new)

N
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of (new)
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nikon
Njinga (new)
Nurse, Rebecca (new)

O
Oates, Titus
Ogata Kōrin
Olivares, Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental, Count-Duke of (new)
O'More, Rory (new)
Opechancanough (new)
Oxenstierna, Axel

P
Pachelbel, Johann (new)
Papin, Denis
Pascal, Blaise
Paterson, William
Paul V (new)
Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de (new)
Peltrie, Madame de la
Penn, William
Pepys, Samuel (new)
Perrault, Charles (new)
Petty, Sir William (new)
Philip III (new)
Philip IV (new)
Philips, Katherine (new)
Piscopia, Elena Cornaro (new)
Pocahontas
Poussin, Nicolas
Powhatan
Pride, Thomas
Pufendorf, Samuel von
Purcell, Henry
Pym, John

Q
Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco Gómez de (new)

R
Racine, Jean
Radisson, Pierre Esprit (new)
Rambouillet, Catherine de Vivonne, Marquise de (new)
Ray, John (new)
Razin, Stenka (new)
Rembrandt
Richelieu, Cardinal de
Romanov, Michael (new)
Rose of Lima, Saint (new)
Rowlandson, Mary White (new)
Rubens, Peter Paul
Rupert, Prince (new)
Ruyter, Michiel Adriaanszoon de (new)

S
Sōtatsu
Santorio Santorio
Savery, Thomas (new)
Savile, Sir George (new)
Schickard, Wilhelm (new)
Schomberg, Friedrich Hermann (new)
Schurman, Anna Maria van
Schütz, Heinrich
Scudéry, Madeleine de (new)
Seki Kōwa (new)
Sévigné, Madame de (new)
Shabbetai Tzevi (new)
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of
Shah Jahan
Shirley, James (new)
Shunzhi (new)
Siegemundin, Justine (new)
Sigismund III Vasa (new)
Sirani, Elisabetta (new)
Ŝivājī
Smith, John
Sophia (new)
Spinoza, Baruch
Squanto (new)
Standish, Miles
Steno, Nicolaus (new)
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of
Strozzi, Barbara (new)
Stuyvesant, Peter
Suckling, Sir John (new)
Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke de (new)
Swammerdam, Jan (new)
Sydenham, Thomas

T
Tasman, Abel Janszoon
Tekakwitha, Kateri
Tianqi (new)
Tirso de Molina (new)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (new)
Torricelli, Evangelista
Torstenson, Lennart
Tourneur, Cyril (new)
Tromp, Maarten
Turenne, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount de (new)

U
Urban VIII (new)
Ussher, James (new)

V
Vane, Sir Henry, the Younger (new)
Vasily Shuysky (new)
Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de
Vega Carpio, Lope de
Velázquez, Diego
Vermeer, Jan
Vieira, António (new)
Vincent de Paul, Saint

W
Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel von
Wallis, John (new)
Wang Fuzhi (new)
Ward, Mary (new)
Webster, John (new)
William III
Williams, Roger
Willis, Thomas (new)
Winstanley, Gerrard (new)
Winthrop, John
Wren, Sir Christopher

X

Y
Yui Shōsetsu (new)

Z
Zheng Chenggong
Zurbarán, Francisco de (new)