With the more complete can be collected here in chronological order all the news about the life of Thomas Hobbes, focusing on the day, month and year whenever possible. For books you try to make a comprehensive list of their first edition up to the present day. When smooth and not too generic, I will carefully direct or secondary sources from which I draw the news and all the data reprocessed. For the "Leviathan" I draw the edition edited by Raffaella Santi hours and the equipment therein published. The data presented here depend dall'attendibilità sources, I can not in general verify, but data are commonly reported in Directories.
• April 5, 1588 - Thomas Hobbes was born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, by a parish priest who is forced to abandon her children at an early age. •
1592-1602 - Hobbes attended school in Westport and then to Malmesbury, where the teacher has to Hellenist Robert Latimer. •
1602/3-1608 - attended the Magdalen Hall, Oxford and graduated bachelor of arts.
• 1603-1604 - were the years of study at Oxford. Hobbes was not satisfied with the studies being imparted. •
1608 - Hobbes is used by Sir William Cavendish, son of the Baron of Hardwick and the future Earl of Devonshire (1618), as tutor to the son and then as secretary. Remain in close contact with the powerful family of Hardwick Hall for a lifetime. •
1614-1615 - made his first trip to the continent (France and Italy) in the wake of Cavendish's son, William. •
1628 - William died and Hobbes left for a short period, the Cavendish family. •
1629-1630 - Put the English translation of History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. •
1629-1630 - He makes his second trip the continent (France, Switzerland) as guardian of Gervase, son of the powerful landowner Gervase Clifton, with whom he had found employment after the death of William. But to return to England in November 1630, returns with the Cavendish family. •
1634-1636 - He makes his third trip to the continent in the wake of son William. In Italy he meets Galileo. Marin Mersenne in Paris brought him into contact with the great intellectuals of the time, like Gassendi, and Descartes Digly. •
1637 - Public A Briefe of the Art of Rhetoric . •
1640 - It circulates several copies of the manuscript Elements of Law Natural and Politics . •
1640-1651 - Alarmed by a few speeches by members of the Parliament along "against filomonarchici, on the eve of the Civil War volonario went into exile in France, where he remained for 11 years. •
1641 - In an appendix to his book Descartes come Objectiones to Descartes' Meditations.
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• April 5, 1588 - Thomas Hobbes was born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, by a parish priest who is forced to abandon her children at an early age. •
1592-1602 - Hobbes attended school in Westport and then to Malmesbury, where the teacher has to Hellenist Robert Latimer. •
1602/3-1608 - attended the Magdalen Hall, Oxford and graduated bachelor of arts.
• 1603-1604 - were the years of study at Oxford. Hobbes was not satisfied with the studies being imparted. •
1608 - Hobbes is used by Sir William Cavendish, son of the Baron of Hardwick and the future Earl of Devonshire (1618), as tutor to the son and then as secretary. Remain in close contact with the powerful family of Hardwick Hall for a lifetime. •
1614-1615 - made his first trip to the continent (France and Italy) in the wake of Cavendish's son, William. •
1628 - William died and Hobbes left for a short period, the Cavendish family. •
1629-1630 - Put the English translation of History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. •
1629-1630 - He makes his second trip the continent (France, Switzerland) as guardian of Gervase, son of the powerful landowner Gervase Clifton, with whom he had found employment after the death of William. But to return to England in November 1630, returns with the Cavendish family. •
1634-1636 - He makes his third trip to the continent in the wake of son William. In Italy he meets Galileo. Marin Mersenne in Paris brought him into contact with the great intellectuals of the time, like Gassendi, and Descartes Digly. •
1637 - Public A Briefe of the Art of Rhetoric . •
1640 - It circulates several copies of the manuscript Elements of Law Natural and Politics . •
1640-1651 - Alarmed by a few speeches by members of the Parliament along "against filomonarchici, on the eve of the Civil War volonario went into exile in France, where he remained for 11 years. •
1641 - In an appendix to his book Descartes come Objectiones to Descartes' Meditations.
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