1675 in literature
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The year 1675 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- November 11 - Gottfried Leibniz's notebooks record a breakthrough in his work on calculus.
[edit] New books
- Joshua Barnes - Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies
- 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
- Mary Trye - Medicatrix, or the Woman Physician
- Marie-Catherine de Villedieu - Les Désordres de l’amour
- John Wilkins - Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion
[edit] New 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
- George Lesly - Fire and Brimstone, or the Destruction of Sodom
- Thomas Otway - Alcibiades
- Henry Nevil Payne - The Siege of Constantinople
- Thomas Shadwell - The Libertine
- William Wycherley - The Country Wife
[edit] Poetry
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester - A Satire Against Mankind (published 1679)
[edit] Births
- September 2 - William Somervile, poet (died 1742)
- October 11 - Samuel Clarke, philosopher (died 1729)
[edit] Deaths
- September 23 - Valentin Conrart, co-founder of the French Academie (born 1603)
- December 6 - John Lightfoot, theologian (born 1602)
