First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Robert Miner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Honors College at Baylor University. He has published widely on the history of modern philosophy and is the author or Vico, Genealogist of Modernity.

Chapter 1 Thomas Aquinas; Chapter 2 Nicolaus Cusanus; Chapter 3 Francis Bacon; Chapter 4 René Descartes; Chapter 5 Thomas Hobbes; Chapter 6 Giambattista Vico; Chapter 7 Epilogue;