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Shelfmark

Gc.5.31

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Title

Hobbius heauton-timorumenos. Or A consideration of Mr Hobbes his dialogues. In an epistolary discourse, addressed, to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. By John Wallis. D.D. Professor of Geometry in Oxford..

Varying form of title

Portion of title: Consideration of Mr Hobbes his dialogues

Publication, distribution, etc.

Oxford. : Printed by A. & L. Lichfield, for Samuel Thomson, at the Bishops-head in S. Pauls Church-yard, London,, 1662..

Physical description

[4], 160 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 17 cm. (8vo)

Note

"A sustained, technical, acrid criticism" of Thomas Hobbes's "Examinatio & emendatio mathematicæ hodiernæ" (Wing H2236) and of his "Dialogus physicus, sive De natura aeris" (Wing H2229)--Madan.

Note

Dated at end: Oxon. Febr. 20. 1661/2.

Note

Another edition (ESTC R235180) has "S. Pauls Church-yard, Lon." at end of imprint.

Note

Signatures: pi² A-K⁸.

Note

Errata at foot of p. [4].

Note

Title in double ruled border.

Note

Initial, head- and tail-pieces.

Citation/references note

ESTC, R38416

Citation/references note

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W589

Citation/references note

Madan, III, 2618

Provenance

Bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton in 1731. Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.

Binding

Contemporary calf; border of blind double fillets with additional double fillets parallel to spine; rebacked in 20th century goatskin.

Copy-specific note

Previous shelfmark: Dp.6.18.

Subject

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588 - 1679 Dialogus physicus de natura aeris.

Subject

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588 - 1679 Examinatio et emendatio mathematicæ hodiernæ.

Subject

Mathematics Early works to 1800.

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England Oxford.

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England London.

Identifier

B49251
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