![]() Manasseh ben Israel is appointed to the Amsterdam Yeshiva.ġ638 Birth of Louis XIV, who eventually reigns until 1715 (Damasio 2003).ġ639. Descartes publishes Discours de la Methode.ġ638. Alliance of the United Provinces with France against Spain.ġ633 Galileo is convicted and placed under house arrest (Damasio 2003).ġ633 Descartes thinks twice about publishing views on human nature resulting from his research on human anatomy and physiology (Damasio 2003).ġ633 William Harvey describes the circulation of blood (Damasio 2003).ġ637. Queen Christina (born 1626) ascends the throne of Sweden (five regents govern in her stead).ġ632 Rembrandt painted The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Birth of Baruch Spinoza, 24 November (dies 1677), in Amsterdam.īirth of Anton van Leeuwenhoeck (dies 1723) in Delft.īirth of Jan Vermeer (dies 1675) in Delft.ġ632 Birth of John Locke (dies 1704) in Wrington, Somerset. Huygens was an astronomer and physicist as well as the intellectual peer, correspondent, sometime neighbour adn lens customer of Spinoza (Damasio 2003).īirth of Gabriel Metsu (dies 1667) in Leiden.īirth of Pieter de Hooch (dies 1684) in Rotterdam.ġ632. William Harvey discovers the mechanisms of the human circulatory system.ĭescartes completes Regulae ad directionem ingenii.ġ629 Birth of Christian Huygens (dies 1695) in The Hague. ![]() ![]() Birth of Robert Boyle (dies 1691) in Lismore, Munster.ġ628. Birth of Jan Steen (dies 1679) in Leiden.ġ627. Hugo de Groot (Grotius) (1583-1645) publishes, in exile, De jure belli et pacis.ġ626. Death of Stadholder Maurice of Nassau he is succeeded by his brother, Frederick Henry who consolidates the authority of the House of Orange. Probable date Spinoza’s parents arrive at Amsterdam.īirth of Carel Fabritius (dies 1654) in Midden-Beesmster.ġ623. Hostilities resume between Spain and the United Provinces.ġ622. Francis Bacon writes Noveum organum.ġ621. Batavia, Java is established as headquarters of the Dutch East India Company.ġ620. Defenestration of Prague and beginning of the Thirty Years War.ġ619. He was still revising Hamlet (Damasio 2003).ġ616 Cervantes died on the same day as Shakespeare (Damasio 2003).ġ618. His study of the stars leads him to adopt Copernicus’s views on movements of the sun and earth (Damasio 2003).ġ616. Beginning of the twelve year truce between the United Provinces and Spain, effectively establishing political independence (after nearly a 100 year struggle) for the seven northern provinces as well as their (Protestant) sectarian separation from the (Catholic) southern provinces.ġ610 Galileo builds a telescope. The age of questioning begins (Damasio 2003).ġ604 Shakespeare’s King Lear is performed (Damasio 2003).ġ604 Francis Bacon’s Advancement of Learning (Damasio 2003).ġ604 Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote published (Damasio 2003).ġ609. He had a significant influence on Spinoza (Damasio 2003).ġ592 Death of Michel de Montaigne (born 1533), whose essays published in 1588 had a significant influence on Spinoza (Damasio 2003).ġ593 Christopher Marlowe dies in an accident (Damasio 2003).ġ596 Birth of René Descrates (Damasio 2003).ġ600 Giordano Bruno burned at the stake for siding with Copernicus and holding pantheistic beliefs (Damasio 2003).ġ601 William Shakespeare’s mature Hamlet is performed. A steady stream of Jewish refugees begins to flow from Portugal.ġ543 Death of Copernicus (born 1473), who proposed that the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around (Damasio 2003).ġ564 Death of Martin Luther (born 1483), who was excommunicated by the Catholic Church in 1521 founded the Lutheran Church (Damasio 2003).ġ564 Birth of Galileo Galilee, William Shakespeare, and Christophe Marlowe (Damasio 2003).ġ564 Death of John Calvin, who founded Calvinism (the Presbyterian Church today) in 1536 (Damasio 2003).ġ572 Luis de Camöes publishes The Lusiad (Damasio 2003).ġ588 Birth of Thomas Hobbes, the English philosopher who took a clearly materialistic view of the mind. All Portuguese Jews (including Spinoza’s ancestors) are forced to convert. All practicing Jews in Spain are given the choice to convert or be expelled.ġ497. Establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, whose primary task is to convict and execute those found “judaizing.”ġ492. Spanish Jews are forced to convert to Catholicism for the sake of “social and sectarian uniformity.”ġ478.
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