1700 in philosophy

Events

• Gokulanatha Upadhyaya becomes court pandit to Maharaja Madhave Sinha of Mithila

Births

• Johann Christoph Gottsched

Publications

• Thomas Hyde, Historia religionis veterum Persarum, Oxford, 1700. In this work Hyde highlighted Zoroastrian and Persian philosophies to the West. He also coined the term dualism in this work.
• Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, De Origine Juris Romani, 1700