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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.

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