1656 in philosophy

1656 in philosophy

Events

• Blaise Pascal writes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
• Baruch Spinoza is expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam.

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.
• Thomas Hobbes, the expanded English translation of his De Corpore (1655).

Births

• 11 October - William Molyneux

Deaths

• 8 September - Joseph Hall
• 1 October - John Bulwer
• 30 October - Ferruccio Baffa Trasci
• Kim Jip

References