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© April 2004
revised 26 June 2008
The IN BRIEF section of she-philosopher.com is intended to house a miscellany of information gathered in the course of researching various topics and persons having to do with 17th-century arts & sciences.
As most anyone who’s had any kind of e-correspondence with me is well aware, I’m not known for brevity. I use the IN BRIEF heading here in a somewhat different sense, to emphasize the provisional nature of the notes and queries and arguments set forth.
This is the section of she-philosopher.com reserved for scholarly exploration and brainstorming. As elsewhere on this site, essays will be more informal than peer-reviewed publication allows, with more relaxed rules of citation, in keeping with a renewed focus on primary over secondary materials.
IN BRIEF essays are organized into two subcategories: Topics and Biographies.
topics
Available topics are given below. For a listing of planned topic essays, see the Previews: In Brief page.:
- Arguments For and Against Learned Women at the Close of the 17th Century
- Bakhtin’s “dialogic imagination” & other core concepts
- the Bishop and the Antipodes
- a Comparison of 17th-Century Pocahontas Narratives & the 1890s Play by “Powhatan’s Pamunkey Indian Braves”
- the Museo Kircheriano (Kircher’s renowned Musæum)
- Phronesis (practical wisdom)
- Prudentia (prudence)
- Sir Walter Ralegh’s Lost Colony & the Croatan Indians of North Carolina
biographies
Available biographies are given below. For a listing of planned biographical essays, see the Previews: In Brief page.
- Acuña, Don Diego Sarmiento de, Count de Gondomar
- Cecil, Robert, 1st earl of Salisbury
- Cowley, Abraham
- Harvey, William
- Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales (eldest son of King James I of England)
- Holder, Susan
- Hollar, Wenceslaus
- James Stuart, King James I of England & King James VI of Scotland
- Kircher, Athanasius
- Merian, Maria Sibylla
- Petty, William
- Ralegh, Sir Walter
- Smith, John (Captain)
- Zuñiga, Don Pedro de
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