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The first book claiming to present a ‘new philosophy’ would seem to be Francesco Patrizi’s anti-Aristotelian Nova de universis philosophia, or A New Universal Philosophy, of 1591.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The greater part of the work is an anti-Aristotelian discussion on Air, Meteorology, Astronomy, the Winds, Tides, and Springs.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William