The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance / Jill Kraye -- Renaissance philosophy outside Italy / Stuart Brown -- Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes / George Molland -- Francis Bacon and man's two-faced kingdom / Antonio Pérez-Ramos -- Descartes / Stephen Gaukroger -- Descartes / John Cottingham -- Seventeenth-century materialism / T. Sorell -- Spinoza / G.H.R. Parkinson -- The moral and political philosophy of Spinoza / Hans W. Blom -- Occasionalism / Daisie Radner -- Leibniz / Nicholas Jolley.