“When advanced to such height wee look down to the bottom from which philosophy first took her rise, and see how great a progresse she hath made.”
About Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678
Thomas Stanley, born on 3 September 1625 and dead on 12 April 1678, was one of the most cultivated English writers of the seventeenth century: a lyric poet of the Cavalier age, a translator of Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish literature, an editor of Aeschylus, a patron and friend of writers, and the author…