Mortal Gods: Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of Thomas Hobbes
Pennsylvania State University Press (2011)
| Abstract | The humanist face of Hobbes's mathematics, part 1 -- Constraints that enable the imitation of God -- King of the children of pride : the imitation of God in context -- Architectonic ambitions : mathematics and the demotion of physics -- Eloquence and the audience thesis -- All other doctrines exploded : Hobbes, history, and the struggle over teaching -- The humanist face of Hobbes's mathematics, part 2 : Leviathan and the making of a masque-text -- Appendix. Who is a geometer?. | |||||||||
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