1686 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1686. Events January – John Dryden is recorded as having converted to Roman Catholicism. New books Prose Pierre Bayle – Philosophical Commentary (on religious freedom) Bernard de Fontenelle Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds) L'Histoire des oracles Gottfried Leibniz Brevis Demonstratio Erroris Memorabilis Cartesii et Aliorum Circa Legem Naturae (A Brief Demonstration of the Memorable Error of Descartes and Others About the Law of Nature) Discours de Métaphysique Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴) Twenty Cases of Unfilial Children (本朝二十不孝 Honchō Nijū Fukō) The Life of an Amorous Woman (好色一代女 Kōshoku Ichidai Onna) Thomas Sydenham – Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu (Schedule of Symptoms of Newly Arrived Fever)