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Thomas HOBBES (1588-1679), was born at Malmesbury and educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. In 1647, he was appointed mathematical tutor to the Prince of Wales. Between 1621 and 1626, he was in contact with F. Bacon, translated some of his essays into Latin, and took down his thoughts from his dictation. On three occasions he travelled on the Continent with a pupil, and met Falileo, Gassendi, Descartes and the French mathematician Mersenne. On his return to England he submitted to the Council of State in 1652, and was pensioned after the Restoration. He was intimate with G. Harvey, Jonson, Cowley and Godolphin. As a philosopher Hobbes resembles Bacon in the utilitarian importance that he attaches to knowledge. Nature and man are the objects of his enquiry. He regards science as essentially deductive, and the geometrical method of demonstration as the true scientific method. “Leviathan” (1651) brought him into disfavour on both political and religious grounds. The royalists had some reason to regard this work as designed to induce Cromwell to take the crown.