Hobbs's tripos, in three discourses:. the first, Humane nature, or the fundamental elements of policy. Being a discovery of the faculties, acts and passions of the soul of man, from their original causes, according to such philosophical principles as are not commonly known, or asserted. The second, De corpore politico. Or the elements of law, moral and politick, with discourses upon several heads, as of the law of nature, oaths and covenants; several kinds of governments, with the changes and revolutions of them. The third, Of liberty and necessity; wherein all controversie, concerning predestination, election, free-will, grace, merits, reprobation, is fully decided and cleared.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Category
Books
Date
1684
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3197943
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 317, [3] p. ;. 8vo. Provenance: final leaf inscribed "Thomas Tompson"; eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Binding: seventeenth-century sheep, sewn onto recessed bands; double blind fillets, additional line tooled parallel to spine.
Makers and roles
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), author