The metaphysical system of Hobbes in twelve chapters from his "Elements of philosophy concerning body," together with briefer extracts from his "Human nature" and "Leviathan"

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Table of Contents

T. Hobbes Malmesburiensis Vita (p. vii)
Topical List of the Writings of Hobbes (p. xviii)
Bibliographical Notes (p. xxv)
Title Page (p. 1)
Translator's Preface (p. 2)
The Author's Epistle to the Reader (p. 3)
Chapter I - Of Philosphy (p. 5)
Chapter II - Of Names (p. 15)
Chapter III - Of Proposition (p. 16)
Chapter IV - Of Syllogism (p. 16)
Chapter V - Of Erring, Falsity, and Captions (p. 17)
Chapter VI - Of Method (p. 17)
Chapter VII - Of Place and Time (p. 43)
Chapter VIII - Of Body and Accident (p. 52)
Chapter IX - Of Cause and Effect (p. 69)
Chapter X - Of Power and Act (p. 76)
Chapter XI - Of Identity and Difference (p. 80)
Chapter XII - Of Quantity (p. 86)
Chapter XIII - Of Analogism, or the Same Proportion (p. 92)
Chapter XIV - Of Strait and Crooked, Angle and Figure (p. 92)
Chapter XV - Of the Nature, Properties, and Divers Considerations of Motion and Endeavor (p. 95)
Chapter XVI - Of Motion Accelerated and Uniform, and of Motion by Concourse (p. 106)
Chapter XVII - Of Figures Deficient (p. 106)
Chapter XVIII - Of the Equation of Stait Lines with the Crooked Lines of Parabolas and other Figures made in imitation of Parabolas (p. 107)
Chapter XIX - Of Angles of Incidence and Reflection, equal by Supposition (p. 108)
Chapter XX - Of the Dimension of a Circle, and the Division of Angles or Arches (p. 109)
Chapter XXI - Of Circular Motion (p. 109)
Chapter XXII - Of other Variety of Motion (p. 110)
Chapter XXIII - Of the Centre of Equiponderation of Bodies pressing downwards in Strait Parallel Lines (p. 111)
Chapter XXIV - Of Refraction and Reflection (p. 112)
Chapter XXV - Of Sense and Animal Motion (p. 113)
Chapter XXVI - Of the World and of the Stars (p. 134)
Chapter XXVII - Of Light, Heat and of Colours (p. 134)
Chapter XXVIII - Of Cold, Wind, Hard, Ice, Restitution of Bodies bend, Diaphonous, Lightning and Thunder, and of the Heads of Rivers (p. 140)
Chapter XXIX - Of Sound, Odour, Savour, and Touch (p. 141)
Chapter XXX - Of Gravity (p. 153)
Human Nature - Chapter II (p. 157)
Leviathan, Chapter XI (in part) (p. 165)
Chapter XII (p. 166)
Chapter XXXI ( in part) (p. 171)
Chapter XXXIV (in part) (p. 183)

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