Talk:17th century

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== Thomas Browne discuss 17 th century Britain one cannot ommit Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) for his contribution in literature, linguistics, science, theology and botany spans the greater part of this century. Problem is his archaic, baroque and latinate text is just too difficult for most to read these days.

I hardly think he is one of the, say, twenty most influential persons of the 17th century? --Victor Gijsbers

I confess, I had not heard of him but one of the reasons for reading an encycolpedia is to discover what you don't know of subtle influences. Take care not to squeeze him out altogether. Robert Browne too, was influential. Who has heard of him? (http://www.stamfordshakespeare.co.uk/history2.htm) (RJP 12:12, 12 May 2005 (UTC))

==Changes== Until the 16th century, starting from the beginning of Wikipedian time, there is no section about the "Five overall largest mass killings". It's removal is for several reasons. First of all, there is a specific format for all these year and century pages, which this violates. Secondly, it is a stupid concept that sounds like it was written by some sort of man-ape who stole a real human's keyboard and had a slight knowledge of the English language. Thirdly, the page it links to confesses that there is no amount of truth in these wild estimates. It is also a pretty amateurish page to begin with. So. I deleted it and I hope that whoever keeps reediting in mistakes will leave it alone this time. Also, the separations of “Artists” and “Scientists” was so wholly unneeded and inaccurate that I removed it and placed them in alphabetical order. If you feel the need to change this, please do so all the way back and try not to have three or four completely different centurial templates because you know more about them.--[[User:TheGrza|TheGrza]] 02:45, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

If you check out the 20th century, they did categorize significant people. Brunnock 15:07, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

What's with the "Zach Nunes i love bsn with chris barber" under the "Decades and Years" section? I can find it in the html of the page but not the wiki code. Could someone change this? It looks ridiculous. JollyJeanGiant 21:57, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Introduction

I'm thinking of reducing the intro to just "As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700." I don't think it's practical to summarize a century. To me, the current summary stating that some nations' power increased and others decreased isn't very meaningful. The line about the Scientific Revolution could be moved to the Inventions and discoveries section. Brunnock 15:04, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Events

I took the liberty of reformatting the events. Each line starts with the year or range of years, followed by a colon, followed by a brief description of the event. Some of the "events" didn't have dates associated with them, other than that they occurred during the 17th century. Perhaps they could be moved to the introduction? Brunnock 03:01, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] English Civil War

I realize that this war is a very significant event, but it's covered in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. - Brunnock 10:22, May 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Inventions

It occurred to me that there is an extensive list of inventions from the 17th century- Timeline_of_invention#18th_century. Perhaps we could link to that list in lieu of the current list of inventions and avoid a duplication of effort? --Brunnock 23:11, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Humanity Ending?

I saw on the 1639 page something about humanity ceasing to exist in 1637. Since humanity most decidedly did not cease to exist, I have removed that line.

68.42.238.144 10:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC) Contro

P.S. - I have an account but cannot log in, so it recorded my IP address on the edit.