1656 in philosophy
Overview of the events of 1656 in philosophy
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1656 in philosophy
Events
- Blaise Pascal writes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
- Baruch Spinoza is expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam.[1]
Publications
- James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana.
- John Evelyn, An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus de Rerum Natura, translation and commentary.[2]
- Thomas Hobbes, the expanded English translation of his De Corpore (1655).[3]
Births
- 11 October - William Molyneux[4]
Deaths
- 8 September - Joseph Hall
- c. 1 October - John Bulwer
- 30 October - Ferruccio Baffa Trasci
- Kim Jip[5]
References
- ^ Curley, Edwin (31 March 2020). A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works. Princeton University Press. p. xii. ISBN 978-0-691-20928-9.
- ^ Peter France, ed. (2000). The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. Oxford University Press. p. 507. ISBN 9780198183594.
- ^ Alfred Edward Taylor (1908). Thomas Hobbes. London: A. Constable. p. 19.
- ^ Sarah Hutton (2015). British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 197. ISBN 9780191059506.
- ^ James H. Grayson (2013). Korea: A Religious History. Milton Park, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. p. 120. ISBN 9781136869181.
