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. [J. Wallis and S. Ward].

  • Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
Date:
1656
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Credit: 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. [J. Wallis and S. Ward]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ancient Greeks ? There mere mcnJo called; Wit* nefs Luci an ; by whom they are derided; Wit* nefs-divers Cities} fro n which they have been often by pnblique EdiUs banijhed. But it follows • not that there mas P hi lofophy-. There waited in eld Greece a certain Phantafne, for fitfirficml g ra uityCthough full within offraud & filthJ a little ItPbtlofopby; which mwary men thinking to be it jabbered to the Profejjors of it,fome to one, fome to another (though they difdgreed among tbemfeIves) and with great Salary put their child¬ ren to them to be taught, in fiend of VPif dome3 no¬ thing hut todifpute; &• neghUmg the Laws} to determine every Quefiion according to their own fancies. The firfi Dottors of the Church next the Apofilesj born in thofe times, while(l-they ended* vored to defend the Cbrifiian Faith againfi the Gentiles by Natural Keafon} began alfo tomabe nfe of Phi/ofopby, &* with the Decrees of Holy Scripture to mingle the Sentences of Heathen Phi- lofophers; firfi fome harmlefs ones of Plato; but afterwards alfi many foolifh &falfe ones out of the Pbyficby & Metapbyficl\s of Ariftode bring¬ ing in the Enemies betrayed unto them the Cittadel of Cbriflianity, From that time jn (lead of the Wor-