BENEDICT DE SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise

1672 Fre nch Inva s io n of the Dutch Re public ; ove r t hrow of th e an t i -
O rang is t re g i me in Holla nd ; Sp ino z a cl o s e to the s c e n e of the
m o b mu rder of t he B rothe rs de Witt , in The Hague.
1674 St ate s of Holla nd an d Sta te s Ge n e ral for mally ba n the TTP
to ge th e r with Meye r ’s Ph ilos op h and ia Ho bb e s’ Leviathan.
1676 Le ib ni z vis it s Sp in o z a in The Hag ue a nd c onfe rs with h i m
‘s eve ral t i me s and at g re a t le ngth’.
1677 Feb r uar y 21, dea th of Sp ino z a at The Hagu e.
1677 Ale r te d by the C at holi c le ade rship i n Holla nd, the Holy O ⁄c e
in Ro me t ake s ste p s to tr y to preve n t public at io n of Sp in o z a’s
Ethics .
1677 Po st hu m ous public at io n in A ms te rdam u n der th e s o on le g e n -
dar y in it ials B. D. S. of , t he Opera Pos thuma inc luding Sp in o z a’s
Ethics , c or re sp onde nce , an d u n¢nis he d tre at is e s.
1678 The St ate s of Holla n d and Sta te s Ge n e ral for mally ban Sp ino -
z a’s philo s ophy, i n to to to ge th e r with all re-working s a nd
re s t ate me n ts of his i dea s , t hre a te ning aut hors , publis he rs and
pr in te rs wh o violate th e ba n with he avy ¢ n e s and lo ng te r ms of
imprisonment.
1678 Appearance of theTTP in French translation under three different
clandestine titles.
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Chronology
in France, Bayle acquires copies of and reads all the works of
‘le fameux Spinosa’.
1683 Publication in London of Charles Blount’s Miracles, no Violations
ofthe Laws of Nature, much ofwhich consists of an English
re n der ing of th e s ixth c hapte r of the TTP.
1689 TTP becomes the ¢rst work of Spinoza to be published in
English, appearing in London (without his name on the titlepage)
under the title ATreatise PartlyTheological and Partly Political,
Containing some few Discourses to Prove that the Liberty of
Philosophizing (that is, Making Use of Natural Reason) may be
allow’d without any Prejudice to Piety, or to the Peace of any
Commonwealth.
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