1656 in philosophy
'''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.