THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV by Will and Ariel Durant. 802 pages. Simon & Schuster. $10. Louis branded the age with his name. He was, after all, the arbiter of its fashions, the patron of its arts, the ...
THE AGE OF REASON BEGINS (732 pp.) —Will and Ariel Durant—Simon & Schuster ($10). In 1619, Johann Kepler published his remarkable studies on the orbital speed of planets. Two generations later, they ...