Some Letters of Thomas Hobbes
- 30 April 1950
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Notes and Records
- Vol. 7 (2) , 195-206
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1950.0016
Abstract
WHEN Samuel de Sorbiere called on Charles II in 1663, the air had for some time been black with brickbats in the form of pamphlet and counter/pamphlet which Thomas Hobbes had exchanged with his redoubtable opponent John Wallis. Hobbes had made mistakes in his geometry, and these were visited upon him unmercifully by Wallis. Hobbes defended himself and alluded to something of which Wallis had once been proud, viz. that he had deciphered Charles Ts despatches after the battle of Naseby. Wallis replied by the allegation that Hobbes had written his Leviathan in order to curry favour with Cromwell.Keywords
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