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The seventeenth century bécame a kind of post-Renaissance marked by great individualism, invention, and discovery; in science its most obvious characteristic is that it was the age of the deliberate, planned experiment. In the world at large it was an era of individual genius — the time of major parts of the lives of Shakespeare, Milton, Pepys and Wren; Rembrandt, Bach and Purcell; and, in philosophy, Descartes, Spinoza, Bacon and Locke. In the mathematical and physical sciences this was the era of Galileo, Newton and Boyle; in biology it saw the quite fundamental contributions of Leeuwenhoek and Hooke, and in medicine the seventeenth century saw the achievements of both Harvey and Sydenham.
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