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Thomas Hobbes

English philosopher (1588–1679)

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Philosophy
History
Ethics
Geometry

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  • The plague of Athens, : which hapened [sic] in the second year of the Peloponnesian war / First described in Greek, by Thucydides; then in Latin by Lucretius. Since attempted in English by the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Rochester.

Images featuring Thomas Hobbes

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  • Thomas Hobbes. Line engraving.
  • Thomas Hobbes. Line engraving after R. Vaughan, 1651.
  • Thomas Hobbes. Etching by W. Hollar, 1665, after J. B. Gaspers (Jaspers).
  • Thomas Hobbes. Line engraving by W. Humphrys, 1839.
  • Thomas Hobbes. Line engraving by W. Faithorne, 1668.
  • Twenty portraits of famous men. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Thomas Hobbes. Line engraving.
  • Fame, with a lamp, hovering among clouds over the earth: around her are seven portraits of philosophers in ovals. Engraving by T. Millow, 1804, after R. Smirke.
  • Homer; Thomas Hobbes; and warriors from Greece and Troy; representing Hobbes's translation of the works of Homer. Line engraving, 1677.
  • Thomas Hobbes. Stipple engraving by J. Posselwhite after J.B. Gaspers (Jaspers).

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    The plague of Athens, which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warre : first described in Greek by Thucydides, then in Latin by Lucretius / now attempted in English, by Tho. Sprat.

    Thomas Sprat | Date: 1665
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    Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes ; edited by Richard Tuck.

    Thomas Hobbes | Date: 1991
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    Critique du De mundo de Thomas White / Thomas Hobbes ; introduction, texte critique et notes par Jean Jacquot et Harold Whitmore Jones.

    Thomas Hobbes | Date: 1973
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    [Thomas Hobbes correspondence].

    Thomas Hobbes | Date: 2008-
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    Elements of philosophy, the first section, concerning body / Written in Latine by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, and now translated into English. ; To which are added six lessons to the Professors of Mathematicks of the institution of Sr. Henry Savile, in the University of Oxford.

    Thomas Hobbes | Date: 1656
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Thomas Sprat
Thucydides

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17th century
Athens
Greece
Plague
England
Philosophy, English

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