1700 in philosophy

1700 in philosophy

Events

• Gokulanatha Upadhyaya^[1] becomes court pandit to Maharaja Madhave Sinha of Mithila^[2]

Births

• Johann Christoph Gottsched (died 1766)

Publications

• Thomas Hyde, Historia religionis veterum Persarum, Oxford, 1700. In this work Hyde highlighted Zoroastrian and Persian philosophies to the West.^[3] He also coined the term dualism (Latin: dualismus) in this work.^[4]
• Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina (an early Italian empiricist), De Origine Juris Romani, 1700^[5]

References

Bibliography

• Ganeri, Jonardon, The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700, Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN 0191025887.
• Levitin, Dmitri, Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science: Histories of Philosophy in England, c. 1640–1700, Cambridge University Press, 2015 ISBN 1107105889.
• Pingree, David, Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Volume 1, American Philosophical Society, 1970 ISBN 0871690810.
• Ueberweg, Friedrich, History of Philosophy: History of modern philosophy, Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1876 OCLC 1049800650
• Winston D., "The Iranian component of the Bible, Apocrypha, and Qumran: A Review of the Evidence", History of Religions, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 183-216.