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Summary: A fine companion to other works
Review: I wanted to state my own agreement with the previous reviewer. It is a book that gives original material. If that is what you are looking for, the book strikes major themes within the works. If you are looking for further exposition on those works, this is not the book for you. As there is very little original material besides those cited it is hard to justify a high rating, but don't let the rating dissuade you: the original text is what it is (of course translated into English as appropriate).Philosophers included are (in order): Amerigo Vespucci, Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther, Nicolas Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Michael de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Gottfried Leibniz, and Pierre Bayle, for a total of about 333 pages of their works (the rest is bibliography, index, and introduction).
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Summary: Philosophy of the 16th and 17th centuries
Review: This is a short anthology of philosophical writings from Europe of the 16th and 17th centuries. The selections are traditional, but this is to be expected from the limited space available that precludes a selection of anyone but the major philosophers of the period, though there is a strange absence of any of the philosophes of the early Enlightenment. A page or two detailing its historical context and giving relevant biographical information briefly introduce each selection. However, these are quite brief and often do not give the philosophers an adequate philosophical context, and it will be difficult to use this anthology on its own. It will be useful as a reference of original source materials to accompany a book or course on the history of philosophy.
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