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EVENTS

Jeremy Taylor is imprisoned for four months at Chepstow Castle .

Thomas Stanley begins his ''History of Philosophy''.

NEW BOOKS

''Elenchus geomeiriae Hobbianae'' - an attack on the work of Thomas Hobbes by John Wallis

''Porta Mosis'' by Edward Pococke

Second edition of '' The Compleat Angler '' by Izaak Walton

''Defense of True Liberty'' by John Bramhall , Anglican divine, begins a correspondence of treatises with Thomas Hobbes.

BIRTHS

January 1 - Christian Thomasius , philosopher

DEATHS

February 25 - Daniel Heinsius , poet

July 28 - Cyrano De Bergerac , dramatist, himself the subject of a famous play by Edmond Rostand

September 7 - François Tristan L'Hermite , dramatist

October 24 - Pierre Gassendi , philosopher