Volume 8: The Age of Louis XIV
Book III: The Periphery
- Chapter XIII: Peter the Great (1698 - 1725)
- Chapter XIV: The Changing Empire (1648 - 1715)
- Chapter XV: The Fallow South (1648 - 1715)
- Chapter XVI: The Jewish Enclaves (1564 - 1715)
Book IV: The Intellectual Adventure
- Chapter XVII: From Superstition to Scholarship (1648 - 1715)
- Chapter XVIII: The Scientific Quest (1648 - 1715)
- Chapter XIX: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
- Chapter XX: English Philosophy (1648 - 1715)
- Chapter XXI: Faith and Reason in France (1648 - 1715)
- Chapter XXII: Spinoza (1623 - 1677)
- Chapter XXIII: Leibniz (1646 - 1716)