Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions and Discoveries of the 17Th Century - An online book that explores the major scientific and mathematical milestones of this era, and examines them from their scientific and sociological perspectives Michael Windelspecht by subscription, 2002. - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101349052
Parish of Rowner near Portsmouth Southern England - Wills, muster lists and parish register together with more general information including coinage, wages, prices and artillery. - http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/
Bubonic Plague - Scans of the Newes July 6, 1665 containing instructions for the containment and disinfection of the plague. - http://www.adelpha.com/~davidco/History/Bubonic1.htm
Jean-Baptiste Colbert - Memorandum on Trade - A belief that material prosperity would raise the yield of taxes but that this prosperity would grow only with a managed economy. - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1664colbert.html
Jean Domat - On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy - The setting of French law and social structure into the wider context of the law of nature and the law of God. - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1687domat.html
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote - Excerpt that satirizes the chivalric traditions of the Middle Ages as absurdly old-fashioned. - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/don_quixote.html
Social Conditions in 17th Century France - From Report of the Estates of Normandy (1651) and Letters of the Abbess of Port-Royal. - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/17france-soc.html
The Great Fire of London - Scans of The London Gazette, September 10, 1666, containing a detailed eyewitness account of the fire. - http://www.adelpha.com/~davidco/History/fire1.htm
England, India, and The East Indies - An attempt to dislodge the Dutch in 1617. - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/1617englandindies.html
African Americans at Jamestown - Timeline of the legislation which carried into law the evolution of American slavery with bibliography. - http://www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/AFRICANS.html