1675 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1675.

Events

• November 11 – Gottfried Leibniz's notebooks record a breakthrough in his work on calculus.^[1]

New books

Prose

• 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

• • • John Crowne Calisto, or the Chaste Nymph (masque)^[6]
  • Country Wit
• 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

• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester – A Satire Against Mankind (published 1679)

Births

• 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

• 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz. 1 December 2008. Cosimo, Inc.. 978-1-60520-533-5. 90.
2. Book: J. H. Burns. James Henderson Burns. Mark Goldie. The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700. 17 November 1994. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-47772-7. 341.
3. Book: Dr. Williams's Library. Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street, Cripplegateurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkArMWElTNgC&pg=PA20. 1841. R. and J.E. Taylor. 20.
4. Book: Laurens Joseph Mills. Peter Hausted, Playwright, Poet, and Preacher. 1944. Indiana University. 53.
5. Book: Madame de Villedieu. Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Moliere: A Novel. 1 November 2007. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-14421-4. 19.
6. Book: Alfred Harbage. Sylvia S. Wagonheim. 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. 1989. Psychology Press. 978-0-415-01099-3. 178.
7. Book: The Book Collector. 2001. Collector Limited. 978-88-222-4738-4. 350.
8. Book: Charles Dudley Warner. A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J). 1 July 2008. Cosimo, Inc.. 978-1-60520-248-8. 231.