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