1628

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All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

William Harvey

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Topic

The unknown Limits of knowledge

Author

William Harvey

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1628 1620s 17th century

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Citation

Harvey, William. "Dedication to Dr. Argent and Other Learned Physicians." Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus [An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings]. Frankfurt: William Fitzer, 1628.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

Edward Coke

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Edward Coke

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1628 1620s 17th century

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Citation

Coke, Edward. Committee of the Whole House. 20 May 1628, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Edward Coke

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Topic

Custom and convention Reason Law

Author

Edward Coke

Source

Institutes of the Lawes of England

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1628 1620s 17th century

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Citation

Coke, Edward. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, a Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law it selfe. London: Societe of Stationers, 1628, bk. 1, ch. 10, sect. 80.

Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason.

Edward Coke

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Topic

Common law Law Reason

Author

Edward Coke

Source

Institutes of the Lawes of England

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1628 1620s 17th century

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Citation

Coke, Edward. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, a Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law it selfe. London: Societe of Stationers, 1628, bk. 2, ch. 6, sect. 138.