Importance of the 17th Century

The Seventeenth Century back to Life

Our world today is based on many basic principles that were established over many years and helped us develop into a smarter people and give us a better quality of life. These principles deal with the world of science and our government. We as Americans have a better quality of life because of our founding fathers. Our founding fathers learned from their many influential people of the past to build the fundamentals of our government now. These fundamentals of what our government is built on are what give us the right to freedom we have as Americans. Science also had a big role in the shaping of our world. Many of the fundamentals such as the idea of real planets, gravity, and forces all were made many years ago by many smart people. We as a world tend to forget in the twenty-seventh century where and who basic principles of our human condition came from.

Recently, while combing through a ruin of an archive, I happened to find a locked box with delicate copies of essays written by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Galileo, and Isaac Newton. In curiosity I read through all the essays and they sparked my interest in the time that they were written. In doing some research I find out that the ideas that these four men were very influential of their time and at times sparked problems. Their lives were committed to forming the groundwork for both science and government as we know it. Thomas Hobbes was considered the greatest English Philosopher of the seventeenth century” (Kishlansky 29). John Locke was “one of the most influential political theorists in Western history” (Kishlansky 33). During the age of the scientific revolution Galileo Galilei “was one of the greatest of the seventeenth-century scientists” (Kishlansky 47). Isaac Newton was the one who gave us many rules about the earth and how it works, invented calculus, and started experiments on optics.

As I mentioned these reading were in a locked box showing that they are of great significance were left there so that these men would not be forgotten. I was very interested in doing research on these letters and finding out more about the seventeenth century so that we could do this 1000 year commemoration of this very influential time of change. These letters are very important to our much more advanced human condition to help us realize how we were built and how we came up with some of the basic knowledge we know now.

Thomas Hobbes was the great English Philosopher of the seventeenth century. During the Civil War time in England is the time when Thomas Hobbes came up with some of the greatest ideas which became a part of Leviathan. This essay was written as a letter on the idea of life to the people of his time in Europe. Hobbes wrote this short essay to explain how bad the mindset of people in his time really was. No men had the reassurance of life and liberty so Hobbes