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]