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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler goes into its fourth edition.

[edit] New books

• Cometographia - Johannes Hevelius
• Cyprianus Anglicanus - Peter Heylin
• Essay of Dramatick Poesie - John Dryden
• An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language - John Wilkins
• Observations upon Experimental Philosophy - Margaret Cavendish

[edit] New drama

• George Etherege - She Would if She Could
• Sir Charles Sedley - The Mulberry-garden
• Molière - L'Avare (The Miser)

[edit] Births

• May 8 - Alain-René Lesage (died 1747)
• September - Joseph Bingham, scholar (died 1723)
• November 11 - Johann Albert Fabricius (died 1736)
• December 21 - Herman Boerhaave, humanist (died 1738)

[edit] Deaths

• April 7 - Sir William Davenant (born 1606)
• date unknown - Stephen Daye, first American printer (born 1594)