In Thomæ Hobbii philosophiam exercitatio epistolica. Ad amplissimum eruditissimúmque virum D. Iohannem Wilkinsium S.T.D. Collegii Wadhamensis Gardianum. Autore Setho Wardo in Academia Oxoniensi Astronomiæ Professore Saviliano. Cum subjicitur appendicula, ad calumnias ab eodem Hobbio (in sex documentis nuperrim editis) in authorem congestas, responsoria.

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• In Thomæ Hobbii philosophiam exercitatio epistolica. Ad amplissimum eruditissimúmque virum D. Iohannem Wilkinsium S.T.D. Collegii Wadhamensis Gardianum. Autore Setho Wardo in Academia Oxoniensi Astronomiæ Professore Saviliano. Cum subjicitur appendicula, ad calumnias ab eodem Hobbio (in sex documentis nuperrim editis) in authorem congestas, responsoria.
• Wardi exercitatio Hobbii philosophiam

People / Organizations

• Seth Ward (Author)

Imprint

Oxoniæ: excudebat H. Hall Academiæ typographus, impensis Richardi Davis, 1656.

Added name

Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.

Publication year

1656

ESTC No.

R4140

Grub Street ID

123038

Description

[16], 359, [1] p. ; 8⁰

Note

A diatribe against Hobbes in the form of a letter to John Wilkins, warden of Wadham College, Oxford.

In part a reply to Thomas Hobbes's "Six lessons to the professors of the mathematiques" (Wing H2260) and to the 1655 edition of his "De corporae" (Wing H2230)..

Vertical half-title reads: Wardi exercitatio Hobbii philosophiam.

Leaves A3 and A4 mis-signed A2 and A3.