1700 in philosophy

1700 in philosophy

Events

 * Gokulanatha Upadhyaya becomes court pandit to Maharaja Madhave Sinha of Mithila

Births

 * Johann Christoph Gottsched (died 1766)

Publications

 * Thomas Hyde, Historia religionis veterum Persarum, Oxford, 1700. In this work Hyde highlighted Zoroastrian and Persian philosophies to the West.  He also coined the term dualism (Latin: dualismus) in this work.
 * Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina (an early Italian empiricist), De Origine Juris Romani, 1700