Literature year 1602
Literature year 1602
Overview of the literature
years Further events
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Events
drama
- William Shakespeare 's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor , premiered in 1597, appears in a four- high edition.
Scientific works
- The Italian doctor and naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi publishes the zoological work De animalibus insectis libri VII .
- The Italian Dominican and philosopher Tommaso Campanella publishes La città del Sole (“The Sun State ”) - the utopia of a perfect Christian-Communist state. In this he attributes all social evils to private property . He wants to eliminate this with a collectivist social order that encompasses all areas of life. According to him, precisely determined requirement plans determine production.
- In the second edition of his book Von Zauberey vnd Zauberern Thorough Report against the persecution of witches and torture, the Palatinate Pastor Anton Praetorius uses his name for the first time. In 1598 he published the first edition under a pseudonym.
Peter Binsfeld : Tract on the acquaintance of sorcerers and witches , Munich 1602
- At the same time the publisher gives Adamsberg a remake of the first time in Munich in 1589 appeared witches treatise treaty of the Bekanntnuß of wizards and witches of Trier auxiliary bishop and witches theorist Peter Binsfeld out.
Born
- May 2 : Athanasius Kircher , German Jesuit and polymath († 1680 )
Died
- February 3 : Paul Melissus , neo-Latin humanist writer (* 1539 )
- September 11th : Sebastian Artomedes , Protestant theologian and hymn poet (* 1544 )
- September 14th : Jean Passerat , French writer and poet (* 1534 )
- October 7th : Thomas Schweicker , armless art writer (* 1541 )
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