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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