The age of reason begins a history of European civilization in the period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648 - Durant, Will 1885-; Durant, Ariel (New York Simon and Schuster, 1961)
Keywords: Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648.; Europe -- History -- 1517-1648.