This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1675.
Events November 11 – Gottfried Leibniz's notebooks record a breakthrough in his work on calculus.
New books Prose Joshua Barnes – Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies John Barret – Fifty Queries Seriously Propounded to those that Question or Deny Infants Right to Baptism Friderich Martens – Spitzbergische oder Groenlandische Reise-Beschreibung, gethan im Jahre 1671 Edward Phillips – Theatrum poetarum A Satire Against Separatists, variously attributed to Abraham Cowley or Peter Hausted Philipp Jakob Spener – Pia Desideria Marie-Catherine de Villedieu – Les Désordres de l’amour John Wilkins – Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion Miguel de Molinos Guía espiritual Breve tratado de la comunión cotidiana Denis Vairasse – The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi
Drama John Crowne Calisto, or the Chaste Nymph (masque) Country Wit John Dryden – Aureng-zebe Thomas Duffet – Psyche Debauch'd Sir Francis Fane – Love in the Dark Nathaniel Lee – Nero, Emperor of Rome Sophonisba Thomas Otway – Alcibiades Henry Nevil Payne – The Siege of Constantinople Thomas Shadwell – The Libertine William Wycherley – The Country Wife
Poetry John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester – A Satire Against Mankind (published 1679)
Births February 26 (baptized) – Abel Evans, English clergyman, academic and poet (died 1737) September 2 – William Somervile, English poet (died 1742) October 11 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and cleric (died 1729)
Deaths April 8 – Veit Erbermann, German theologian and controversialist (born 1597) September – Heinrich Müller, German devotional writer (born 1631) September 12 – Girolamo Graziani, Italian poet (born 1604) September 23 – Valentin Conrart, co-founder of French Academie (born 1603) November 11 – Thomas Willis, English physician and natural philosopher (born 1621) December 6 – John Lightfoot, English scholar and cleric (born 1602)
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