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337–38. He found biblical warrant for Hermeticism in the references in Exodus to
the Egyptian priests’ powers of transmutation. Leviathan, 297.
19. Th is essay, included in Horae Subsecivae, is one of three that Reynolds and Saxonhouse
have demonstrated were written by Hobbes. Th ree Discourses: A Critical
Edition of Newly Identifi ed Work of the Young Hobbes, ed. Noel Reynolds and Arlene
Saxonhouse (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 71–102.
20. David Wootton, Paolo Sarpi: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1983), 3, 134. Hobbes corresponded with Sarpi’s
assistant Micanzo for years. Martinich, Hobbes, 39.
21. William Cavendish and Hobbes also composed essays modeled on those of Bacon.
On this point see Arlene Saxonhouse, “Th e Origins of Hobbes’ Pre-Scientifi c
Th ought: An Interpretation of the Horae Subsecivae,” Ph.D. diss., Yale University,
1973.
22. Martinich, Hobbes, 66.
23. Noel Reynolds and John Hilton , “Who Wrote Bacon,” unpublished essay, 17.
24. Th is long-withheld edition was published in 1629 as a critique of republicanism
and particularly of parliament’s extortion of the Petition of Right the year before.
Reik, Golden Lands, 37. Hobbes criticized those who believed that because they
had read Tully and Seneca they were fi t to manage the state. Hobbes, Behemoth
or Th e Long Parliament, ed. Ferdinand Tönnies, 2d ed. (New York: Barnes and
Noble, 1969), 155–56.
25. Aubrey, “A Brief Life,”150.
26. Malcolm, “Hobbes,” 21.
27. Ibid., 22.
28. Ibid.
29. Martinich, Hobbes, 108.
30. Ibid., 107.
31. Richard Tuck, “Hobbes and Descartes,” in Perspectives on Th omas Hobbes, ed.
G. A. J. Rogers and Alan Ryan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), 30.
32. Donald Hanson, “Th e Meaning of ‘Demonstration’ in Hobbes’ Science,” Th e History
of Political Th ought 9 (1990): 587–626. For an alternative view see Douglas
Jesseph, “Galileo, Hobbes, and the Book of Nature,” Perspectives on Science 12, no. 2
(2004): 191–211.
33. Malcolm, “Hobbes,” 24.
34. Ibid., 25.
35. Ted Miller and Tracy Strong, “Meanings and Contexts: Mr. Skinner’s Hobbes and
the English Mode of Political Th eory,” Inquiry 40 (Fall, 1997): 339.
36. Malcolm, “Hobbes,” 29.
37. Ibid., 30.
38. Tom Sorell, “Hobbes’ Objections and Hobbes’ System,” in Descartes and His Contemporaries:
Meditations, Objections, and Replies (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1995), 83.
39. Patricia Springborg, “Leviathan and the Problem of Ecclesiastical Authority,” in
Th omas Hobbes: Critical Assessments, 4:145.