Early modern · 1623–1673
Who influenced Margaret Cavendish?
Influences
Duchess and natural philosopher whose materialist monism cut against Hobbes and Descartes.
Margaret Cavendish was influenced by Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Margaret Cavendish?
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was an English natural philosopher, poet and playwright who published more than a dozen books under her own name when women were largely shut out of publishing.
Her The Blazing World is one of the first works of science fiction. As a natural philosopher she engaged with Descartes, Hobbes and Henry More.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Margaret Cavendish?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679
- René Descartes 1596–1650
The line of teachers behind Margaret Cavendish
The longest documented line of influence ending at Margaret Cavendish runs 16 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Margaret Cavendish
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Margaret Cavendish
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Margaret Cavendish, with no direct line between them.
- Blaise Pascal 1623–1662
- Anne Conway 1631–1679
- John Locke 1632–1704
- Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677
- Nicolas Malebranche 1638–1715
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
- Pierre Bayle 1647–1706
Margaret Cavendish by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 59
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 35 — #33 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Margaret Cavendish
- Who influenced Margaret Cavendish?
- Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes.
- Who did Margaret Cavendish influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Margaret Cavendish.
- When did Margaret Cavendish live?
- 1623–1673. The map files Margaret Cavendish under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Margaret Cavendish card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Margaret Cavendish in 35 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778
- Niccolò Machiavelli 1469–1527
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
- John Locke 1632–1704