Events
- June 16 - Parliament issues the Licensing Order of 1643 to control the press — the action against which John Milton protests in his Areopagitica of the following year.
- Having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, René Descartes begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.
- The medieval Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius comes to light, in the possession of Brynjólfur Sveinsson.
- Miyamoto Musashi begins dictating The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho).
- Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, The City of the Sun, are published together in a volume titled Mundus Alter et Idem — the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together.
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