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Overview of the events of 1686 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1686 .
Events
New books
Prose
Pierre Bayle – Philosophical Commentary (on religious freedom)
Bernard de Fontenelle
Gottfried Leibniz
Brevis Demonstratio Erroris Memorabilis Cartesii et Aliorum Circa Legem Naturae (A Brief Demonstration of the Memorable Error of
Descartes and Others About the Law of Nature)
[2]
Discours de Métaphysique
Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴)
Twenty Cases of Unfilial Children (本朝二十不孝 Honchō Nijū Fukō)
The Life of an Amorous Woman (好色一代女 Kōshoku Ichidai Onna)
Thomas Sydenham – Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu (Schedule of Symptoms of Newly Arrived Fever)
Children
John Bunyan – A Book for Boys and Girls, or, Country Rhymes for Children
Drama
Poetry
Births
Deaths
January 31 –
Jean Mairet , French dramatist (born
1604 )
[4]
February 6 –
Dorothy White , English Quaker pamphleteer (born c. 1630)
[5]
February 10 –
William Dugdale , English antiquary and herald (born
1605 )
February 25 –
Abraham Calovius , German Lutheran theologian (born
1612 )
June 23 – Sir
William Coventry , English statesman and author (born c. 1628)
July 10 –
John Fell , English academic and bishop (born
1625 )
August 13 –
Louis Maimbourg , French Jesuit historian (born
1610 )
November 25 –
Nicolas Steno (Niels Steenson), Danish scientist (born
1638 )
November 28 –
Nicolas Letourneux , French religious writer (born
1640 )
December 6 –
Nicola Avancini , Italian Jesuit writer (born
1612 )
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