Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

by Philipp Blom

Essays was published in 1580, and several editions came out during the remainder of that century. There were enough wealthy customers—books were expensive—who valued his unblinkered, skeptical humanism. The first English edition was published in 1603. William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon were among its readers.