1675 in literature

Events

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

New books

Prose

• Joshua Barnes – Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies
• John Barret – Fifty Queries Seriously Propounded to those that Question or Deny Infants Right to Baptism
• 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
• Philipp Jakob Spener – Pia Desideria
• Marie-Catherine de Villedieu – Les Désordres de l’amour
• 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)
  • 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)
• 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)
• 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

References

1. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. (1 December 2008). "The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz". Cosimo, Inc..
2. (17 November 1994). "The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700". Cambridge University Press.
3. 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.
4. Laurens Joseph Mills. (1944). "Peter Hausted, Playwright, Poet, and Preacher". Indiana University.
5. Madame de Villedieu. (1 November 2007). "Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Moliere: A Novel". University of Chicago Press.
6. (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.
7. (2001). "The Book Collector". Collector Limited.
8. 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..