1675 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1675.
Events
- November 11 â Gottfried Leibniz's notebooks record a breakthrough in his work on calculus.[1]
New books
Prose
- Joshua Barnes â Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies[2]
- John Barret â Fifty Queries Seriously Propounded to those that Question or Deny Infants Right to Baptism[3]
- Friderich Martens â Spitzbergische oder Groenlandische Reise-Beschreibung, gethan im Jahre 1671
- Edward Phillips â Theatrum poetarum
- A Satire Against Separatists, variously attributed to Abraham Cowley or Peter Hausted[4]
- Philipp Jakob Spener â Pia Desideria
- Marie-Catherine de Villedieu â Les Désordres de lâamour[5]
- John Wilkins â Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion
- Miguel de Molinos
- GuÃa espiritual
- Breve tratado de la comunión cotidiana
- Denis Vairasse â The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi
Drama
- John Crowne
- John Dryden â Aureng-zebe
- Thomas Duffet â Psyche Debauch'd
- Sir Francis Fane â Love in the Dark
- Nathaniel Lee â
- Nero, Emperor of Rome
- Sophonisba
- Thomas Otway â Alcibiades
- Henry Nevil Payne â The Siege of Constantinople
- Thomas Shadwell â The Libertine
- William Wycherley â The Country Wife
Poetry
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester â A Satire Against Mankind (published 1679)
Births
- February 26 (baptized) â Abel Evans, English clergyman, academic and poet (died 1737)
- September 2 â William Somervile, English poet (died 1742)[7]
- October 11 â Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and cleric (died 1729)
Deaths
- April 8 â Veit Erbermann, German theologian and controversialist (born 1597)
- September â Heinrich Müller, German devotional writer (born 1631)
- September 12 â Girolamo Graziani, Italian poet (born 1604)[8]
- September 23 â Valentin Conrart, co-founder of French Academie (born 1603)
- November 11 â Thomas Willis, English physician and natural philosopher (born 1621)
- December 6 â John Lightfoot, English scholar and cleric (born 1602)