The French political philosopher Jean Bodin (1529-1596) influenced European intellectual history through his formulation of economic theories and of principles of good government and through his advocacy of religious tolerance in an intolerant age....

Bodin, Jean(1530–1596) Jean Bodin, the French philosopher, statesman, and early writer on economics, is known chiefly for four major systematic works: Method for the Easy Comprehension of History ( Methodus ad Facilem Historiarum Cognitionem ,...

Jean Bodin (1530–1596) was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement (not to be confused with the English Parliament) of Paris and professor of Law in Toulouse. He is best known for his theory of sovereignty. Bodin lived...

Blair, Ann The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science Princeton: Princeton University Press 382 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-691-05675-7 Publication Date: November 1997 Historians of science, philosophy, and religion will find much to admire in this masterly study of...

Ann Blair. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 382 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-691-005675-7. "How is it possible to understand the whole universe?" asked the author of a 1643 geography, Theatre de l'univers, "[W]hat could we read that would treat absolutely everything? Thus he...