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Great Lives from History: The Seventeenth Century

Table of Contents

Abahai




ՙAbbās the Great




John Alden




Alexander VII




Alexis




Lancelot Andrewes




Anne of Austria




Angélique Arnauld




Aurangzeb




Avvakum Petrovich




Nathaniel Bacon




Richard Baxter




Pierre Bayle




Johann Joachim Becher




Aphra Behn




Gian Lorenzo Bernini




The Bernoulli Family




Thomas Betterton




John Biddle




Robert Blake




Jakob Böhme




Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux




Giovanni Alfonso Borelli




Francesco Borromini




Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet




Louyse Bourgeois




Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys




Robert Boyle




Mrs. Anne Bracegirdle




William Bradford




Anne Bradstreet




Margaret Brent




Sir Thomas Browne




First Duke of Buckingham




John Bunyan




Richard Burbage




Thomas Burnet




Robert Burton




Francesca Caccini




Pedro Calderón de la Barca




Jacques Callot




George Calvert




Richard Cameron




Tommaso Campanella




Thomas Campion




Canonicus




Robert Carr




Gian Domenico Cassini




Catherine of Braganza




Samuel de Champlain




Charles I




Charles II (of England)




Charles II (of Spain)




Charles X Gustav




Chen Shu




Duchesse de Chevreuse




Chongzhen




Christina




First Earl of Clarendon




Claude Lorrain




Sir Edward Coke




Jean-Baptiste Colbert




The Great Condé




Anne Conway




Arcangelo Corelli




Pierre Corneille




John Cotton




Abraham Cowley




Richard Crashaw




Oliver Cromwell




Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz




Cyrano de Bergerac




William Dampier




John Davenport




Lady Eleanor Davies




Thomas Dekker




René Descartes




John Donne




Dorgon




Michael Drayton




John Dryden




Sir Anthony van Dyck




John Eliot




Elizabeth of Bohemia




Elizabeth Stuart




John Evelyn




David and Johannes Fabricius




Third Baron Fairfax




François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon




Ferdinand II




Pierre de Fermat




Nicholas Ferrar




John Fletcher




Robert Fludd




George Fox




Frederick Henry




Frederick William, the Great Elector




Frederick V




Girolamo Frescobaldi




Galileo




Giovanna Garzoni




Pierre Gassendi




Artemisia Gentileschi




Orlando Gibbons




Luis de Góngora y Argote




Marie le Jars de Gournay




Baltasar Gracián y Morales




James Gregory




Francesco Maria Grimaldi




Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen




Hugo Grotius




Guarino Guarini




Otto von Guericke




Gustavus II Adolphus




Madame Guyon




Nell Gwyn




Matthew Hale




Edmond Halley




Frans Hals




William Harvey




Piet Hein




Jan Baptista van Helmont




Henrietta Maria




George Herbert




Robert Herrick




Johannes and Elisabetha Hevelius




Thomas Heywood




Hishikawa Moronobu




Thomas Hobbes




Robert Hooke




Thomas Hooker




Jeremiah Horrocks




Henry Hudson




Anne Hutchinson




Christiaan Huygens




Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville




Ihara Saikaku




Innocent XI




Izumo no Okuni




Jahāngīr




James I




James II




Cornelius Otto Jansen




Saint Isaac Jogues




John of Austria




John III Sobieski




John IV




Louis Jolliet




Inigo Jones




Ben Jonson




Engelbert Kämpfer




Kangxi




Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Paşa




Kâtib Çelebî




Johannes Kepler




Bohdan Khmelnytsky




William Kidd




Eusebio Francisco Kino




Jan Komenský




Kösem Sultan




Jean de La Bruyère




Madame de La Fayette




Jean de La Fontaine




John Lambert




François de La Rochefoucauld




Sieur de La Salle




Georges de La Tour




William Laud




François Laval




Henry Lawes




Charles Le Brun




First Duke of Leeds




Antoni van Leeuwenhoek




Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz




Jacob Leisler




Ninon de Lenclos




André Le Nôtre




Leopold I




Duke de Lerma




Louis Le Vau




John Lilburne




Hans Lippershey




Liu Yin




John Locke




Duchesse de Longueville




Louis XIII




Louis XIV




Marquis de Louvois




Richard Lovelace




Richard Lower




Roger Ludlow




Jean-Baptiste Lully




Madame de Maintenon




Sieur de Maisonneuve




François de Malherbe




Marcello Malpighi




Manasseh ben Israel




The Mancini Sisters




François Mansart




Jules Hardouin-Mansart




Maria Celeste




Marie de l’Incarnation




Marie de Médicis




Marie-Thérèse




Jacques Marquette




Andrew Marvell




Mary of Modena




Mary II




Massasoit




Matsuo Bashō




Maurice of Nassau




Jules Mazarin




Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa




Cosimo II de’ Medici




Marin Mersenne




Metacom




Thomas Middleton




John Milton




Peter Minuit




Molière




George Monck




Duke of Monmouth




Claudio Monteverdi




Duchesse de Montpensier




Boris Ivanovich Morozov




Lodowick Muggleton




Murad IV




Bartolomé Esteban Murillo




Mustafa I




Duchess of Newcastle




Sir Isaac Newton




Nikon




Njinga




Rebecca Nurse




Titus Oates




Ogata Kōrin




Count-Duke of Olivares




Rory O’More




Opechancanough




Axel Oxenstierna




Johann Pachelbel




Denis Papin




Blaise Pascal




William Paterson




Paul V




Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc




William Penn




Samuel Pepys




Charles Perrault




Sir William Petty




Philip III




Philip IV




Katherine Philips




Elena Cornaro Piscopia




Pocahontas




Nicolas Poussin




Powhatan




Thomas Pride




Samuel von Pufendorf




Henry Purcell




John Pym




Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas




Jean Racine




Pierre Esprit Radisson




Marquise de Rambouillet




John Ray




Stenka Razin




Rembrandt




Cardinal de Richelieu




Michael Romanov




Saint Rose of Lima




Mary White Rowlandson




Peter Paul Rubens




Prince Rupert




Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter




Santorio Santorio




Thomas Savery




Sir George Savile




Wilhelm Schickard




Friedrich Hermann Schomberg




Anna Maria van Schurman




Heinrich Schütz




Madeleine de Scudéry




Seki Kōwa




Madame de Sévigné




Shabbetai Tzevi




First Earl of Shaftesbury




Shah Jahan




James Shirley




Shunzhi




Justine Siegemundin




Sigismund III Vasa




Elisabetta Sirani




Śivājī




John Smith




Sophia




Sōtatsu




Baruch Spinoza




Squanto




Miles Standish




Nicolaus Steno




First Earl of Strafford




Barbara Strozzi




Peter Stuyvesant




Sir John Suckling




Duke de Sully




Jan Swammerdam




Thomas Sydenham




Abel Janszoon Tasman




Kateri Tekakwitha




Tianqi




Tirso de Molina




Tokugawa Ieyasu




Tokugawa Tsunayoshi




Evangelista Torricelli




Lennart Torstenson




Cyril Tourneur




Maarten and Cornelis Tromp




Viscount de Turenne




Urban VIII




James Ussher




Sir Henry Vane the Younger




Vasily Shuysky




Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban




Lope de Vega Carpio




Diego Velázquez




Jan Vermeer




António Vieira




Saint Vincent de Paul




Albrecht Wenzel von Wallenstein




John Wallis




Wang Fuzhi




Mary Ward




John Webster




William III




Roger Williams




Thomas Willis




Gerrard Winstanley




John Winthrop




Sir Christopher Wren




Yui Shōsetsu




Zheng Chenggong




Francisco de Zurbarán