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Thomas Hobbes was born on 5 April 1588 (Old Style), in Westport, now part of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England.Having been born prematurely when his mother heard of the coming invasion of the Spanish Armada, Hobbes later reported that "my mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear."
A fun one this. The article currently notes that "Hobbes was born prematurely due to his mother's fear of the Spanish Armada." The article does not footnote a source for this. But it is a reference to a story related by Hobbes himself, e.g. in his English verse autobiography, which relates that
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668).
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (published 1985) is a book by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer.It examines the debate between Robert Boyle and Thomas Hobbes over Boyle's air-pump experiments in the 1660s.
In Paris, he met Hobbes (prior to 1646), and argued with him on liberty and necessity. This led to controversies with Hobbes for years. Up to 1648, he was mainly at Brussels , preaching at the English embassy, and to the English merchants of Antwerp monthly.
Frontispiece of "Leviathan," by Abraham Bosse, with input from Hobbes. Arguably the most influential theory of human social origins is that of Thomas Hobbes, who in his Leviathan [5] argued that without strong government, society would collapse into Bellum omnium contra omnes — "the war of all against all":
He is known for critiques of Deism, Thomas Hobbes's egoism, and John Locke's theory of personal identity. [5] The many philosophers and religious thinkers Butler influenced included David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, [6] Henry Sidgwick, [7] John Henry Newman, [8] and C. D. Broad, [9] and is widely seen as "one of the pre-eminent English ...