1675 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1675.
Events
[edit]- November 11 – Gottfried Leibniz's notebooks record a breakthrough in his work on calculus.[1]
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- Joshua Barnes – Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies[2]
- John Barret – Fifty Queries Seriously Propounded to those that Question or Deny Infants Right to Baptism[3]
- Friderich Martens – Spitzbergische oder Groenlandische Reise-Beschreibung, gethan im Jahre 1671
- Edward Phillips – Theatrum poetarum
- A Satire Against Separatists, variously attributed to Abraham Cowley or Peter Hausted[4]
- Philipp Jakob Spener – Pia Desideria
- Marie-Catherine de Villedieu – Les Désordres de l’amour[5]
- John Wilkins – Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion
- Miguel de Molinos
- Guía espiritual
- Breve tratado de la comunión cotidiana
- Denis Vairasse – The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi
Drama
[edit]- John Crowne
- John Dryden – Aureng-zebe
- Thomas Duffet – Psyche Debauch'd
- Sir Francis Fane – Love in the Dark
- Nathaniel Lee –
- Nero, Emperor of Rome
- Sophonisba
- Thomas Otway – Alcibiades
- Henry Nevil Payne – The Siege of Constantinople
- Thomas Shadwell – The Libertine
- William Wycherley – The Country Wife
Poetry
[edit]- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester – A Satire Against Mankind (published 1679)
Births
[edit]- February 26 (baptized) – Abel Evans, English clergyman, academic and poet (died 1737)
- September 2 – William Somervile, English poet (died 1742)[7]
- October 11 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and cleric (died 1729)
Deaths
[edit]- April 8 – Veit Erbermann, German theologian and controversialist (born 1597)
- September – Heinrich Müller, German devotional writer (born 1631)
- September 12 – Girolamo Graziani, Italian poet (born 1604)[8]
- September 23 – Valentin Conrart, co-founder of French Academie (born 1603)
- November 11 – Thomas Willis, English physician and natural philosopher (born 1621)
- December 6 – John Lightfoot, English scholar and cleric (born 1602)
References
[edit]- ^ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1 December 2008). The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz. Cosimo, Inc. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-60520-533-5.
- ^ J. H. Burns; James Henderson Burns; Mark Goldie (17 November 1994). The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700. Cambridge University Press. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-521-47772-7.
- ^ Dr. Williams's Library (1841). Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street, Cripplegateurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkArMWElTNgC&pg=PA20. R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 20.
- ^ Laurens Joseph Mills (1944). Peter Hausted, Playwright, Poet, and Preacher. Indiana University. p. 53.
- ^ Madame de Villedieu (1 November 2007). Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Moliere: A Novel. University of Chicago Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-226-14421-4.
- ^ Alfred Harbage; Sylvia S. Wagonheim (1989). Annals of English Drama, 975-1700: An Analytical Record of All Plays, Extant Or Lost, Chronologically Arranged and Indexed by Authors, Titles, Dramatic Companies etc. Psychology Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-415-01099-3.
- ^ The Book Collector. Collector Limited. 2001. p. 350. ISBN 978-88-222-4738-4.
- ^ Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J). Cosimo, Inc. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-60520-248-8.