Events from 1670

Bushel's Case - jury independence established, jurors cannot be punished for verdict, foundation of jury rights

Hudson's Bay Company uses partnership within corporation - factors trade as partners but within corporate structure

Pascal's 'Pensées' Published Posthumously - Last major defense of Christianity using reason - 'The heart has reasons that reason knows not' - Famous wager: Bet on God existing

Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise' - 'I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them' - 'Nature has no end set before it' - Purpose is human projection

Birth of Radical Pietist Eva von Buttlar - Later claims to be incarnation of Christ - Leads commune with 'spiritual marriages' - Represents extreme antinomian potential within Pietism