17th Century
Thomas Hobbes
1588–1679
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) was born at Malmesbury, educated at Oxford, and spent most of his life as tutor and secretary to the Cavendish family, Earls of Devonshire. He translated Thucydides, fled to Paris in 1640 for eleven years, and there wrote Leviathan (1651); he returned to England under the Commonwealth and lived, writing and arguing, to ninety-one.
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