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
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