Readings: Toward Modernity

1. Treaty of Westphalia (1648)
2. Statement of the Levellers, 1649
   (from the World Civilizations Reader [Harper Collins]. Introductory note copyright Paul Brians, Washington State University)
3. Count de Saint-Simon, Memoirs from the Court of Louis XIV
4. Copernicus, Preface to The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
5. Francis Bacon, from The New Atlantis
6. Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
   (from the World Civilizations Reader [Harper Collins]. Introductory note copyright Paul Brians, Washington State University)

Internet Resources

• 1492 Exhibit
  (Library of Congress EXPO)
• Columbus Navigation Homepage
• Columbus and the Ages of Discovery Database (Millersville University)
• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture Images
  (Digital Imaging Center, University of Virginia)