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.
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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.
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- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
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- London :: Printed by R. & W. Leybourn for Andrew Crooke ...,
- 1656.
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THE TRANSLATOR To the Reader.
IF when I had finished my Translation of this first Section of the Elements of Philosophy, I had present∣ly committed the same to the Press, it might have come to your hands sooner then now it doth. But as I undertook it with much diffidence of my own ability to perform it well; so I thought fit before I published it, to pray Mr. Hobbes to view, correct and order it according to his own minde and pleasure. Wherefore, though you find some places enlarged, others al∣tered, and two Chapters (the 18th and 20th) almost wholly changed, you may nevertheless remain assured, that as now I present it to you,
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it doth not at all vary from the Authours own sense and meaning. As for the six Lessons to the Savilian Professors at Oxford, they are not of my translation, but were written, as here you have them in English, by Mr. Hobbes himself; and are joyned to this Book, because they are chiefly in defence of the same.