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The printer Abraham Lichtenthaler based in Sulzbach an Offizin in which, inter alia, a series of writings of Jewish authors and works are published in Hebrew.

New releases

Periodicals

• The Gazzetta di Mantova, a daily newspaper for the city and the province of Mantua is founded. The newspaper is one of the oldest existing newspapers in the world.

• Magdeburgische newspaper was owned by the Faber family until 1939. She appeared continuously from 1664 to 1944, when she and the Nazi newspaper "The middle German - New Magdeburg Tageblatt" was merged.

Scientific works, essays

• Fourteen years after his death René Descartes first comprehensive work is published (The World ) under the title Le Monde. The Bobin with Michel and Nicolas Legras printed in Paris book contains under the general title Le Monde Descartes essays Traité de l' homme and Traité de la lumière ou le monde. Descartes had already completed the work in 1633 in large part, when he learned of the condemnation of Galileo for his advocacy of the heliocentric system. Then he had renounced a publication. The text, which is not completely preserved, comes from the estate.

• Athanasius Kircher: Mundus Subterraneus. 1664th

Novels, short stories

• The first two Contes of La Fontaine, " Joconde " and " Le Cocu battu et content" will be published in Paris in Clauce Barbin.

Drama

• John Dryden: Les femmes Rivales
• Premiere of Tartuffe by Molière in Versailles.
• June 20 premiere of La Thébaïde, ou les frères ennemis tragedy in five acts by Jean Racine in the Palais Royal in Paris

• July 31 premiere of Pierre Corneille's tragedy Othon before the court of Louis XIV in Fontainebleau

Born

• January 20: Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and lawyer, co-founder of the Academy of the Arcadia († 1718)

• March 4: Fran Krsto Frankopan, Croatian poet († 1671)

• JULY 21: Matthew Prior, English writer and diplomat († 1721)

• September 7, Johann Georg von Eckhart, German historian and librarian († 1730)

• NOV 9: Henry Wharton: English author and librarian († 1695)
• November 16: Abraham Alewijn, Dutch playwright and poet of lyrics († 1721)

Died

• February 5: Christian Aagaard, Danish poet (* 1616)
• FEBRUARY 11: Balthasar Venator: humanist, neo-Latin poet and satirist (* 1594 )
• JULY 16: Andreas Gryphius, German poet ( 1616)
• NOVEMBER 17: Nicolas Perrot d' Ablancourt, French writer and translator (* 1606 ).

• Silvio Stampiglia: Italian poet and librettist (* 1725)