1655 In Literature

Events

• Jeremy Taylor is imprisoned for four months at Chepstow Castle.
• Thomas Stanley begins his History of Philosophy.

New Books

• Elenchus geomeiriae Hobbianae - an attack on the work of Thomas Hobbes by John Wallis
• Porta Mosis by Edward Pococke
• Second edition of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
• Defense of True Liberty by John Bramhall, Anglican divine, begins a correspondence of treatises with Thomas Hobbes.

Births

• January 1 - Christian Thomasius, philosopher

Deaths

• February 25 - Daniel Heinsius, poet
• July 28 - Cyrano de Bergerac, dramatist, himself the subject of a famous play by Edmond Rostand
• September 7 - Franois Tristan l'Hermite, dramatist
• October 24 - Pierre Gassendi, philosopher

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