Yet despite these advantages, England’s empire remained…

Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking…

— Danielle Dutton

“Though they are now largely silent, the voices from the seventeenth century still speak to us from the innumerable texts and images we are…

— Peter H. Wilson

“Doesn’t the seventeenth-century use of the measurement yard for penis strike you as a bit of an exaggeration, unless the yard then was not…

— Siri Hustvedt

About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets.

— Samuel Johnson

It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his…

— Stephenie Meyer

We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller…

— Alice Morse Earle

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate…

— Aldous Huxley

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

— Bertrand Russell

“Menaced by environmental problems, torn by struggles between the tiny coterie of wealthy Spaniards at the center and a teeming, fractious polyglot periphery, battered…

— Charles C. Mann

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in…

— Alice Morse Earle

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or…

— Jacob Burckhardt

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in…

— Richard Saul Wurman

A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang,…

— John Updike

“In the seventeenth century, in less than forty years, twenty-six lakes were emptied.”

— Edmondo De Amicis