The multifaceted treatise by Wilhelm Windelband provides insight into the philosophy of the early modern period. Important philosophers from the Renaissance to Kant are presented, ranging from the first natural philosophers like Giordano Bruno to rationalists like Descartes and Enlightenment thinkers like Hume and Leibniz. As a professor of philosophy, Wilhelm Windelband (1848-1915) taught at numerous universities. He sought to distinguish between the natural sciences and the cultural sciences.