Mortal Gods: Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of Thomas Hobbes

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absolutism: Hobbes’s discussion of, 1–2, 14, 69–70, 77–80, 147–48, 240n.15, 259n.77; Marin’s analysis of, 290n.100; modern legacy of, 216 –19; patronage networks and, 169; uncertainty and, 211–16. See also sovereignty Act of Oblivion and Indemnity (1661), 145 Act of Uniformity (1661), 145 Agamben, Giorgio, 70, 257n.57 Agricola, Rudolph, 30, 244n.48 Agrippa, 276n.10 Alberti, Leone Battista, 170 –72, 284n.11 algebra (analytic geometry), 221–37, 252n.86, 253n.88 analytic method. See demonstration Anglican Church, 145–49, 198, 230, 278n.47, 283n.4 antifoundationalism, Hobbes and, 208–9 antitheatricality, Hobbes’s use of, 149–50, 279nn.72–73 architecton: Hobbes’s concept of, 81–114, 259n.1; Jesuit defense of mathematics and, 101–8 architecture, 17, 23, 29, 165, 170 –80, 234, 285n.19, 288n.65; Hobbes’s, 161, 164, 165 Archytas, 171 Aristotle, 15, 16, 58, 60, 76, 83, 92, 95–97, 100, 119, 120, 131, 132, 151, 244n.38, 252n.81, 260n.3, 263nn.53, 57, 266n. 90, 267nn.99, 101, 269n.118, 278n.45, 299n.16; Nichomachean Ethics, 120 –21; Posterior Analytics, 95–96, 100, 265n.80, 266n.95 Ascham, Roger, 32, 166; Scholemaster, 22–24 Assyria, natural philosophy in, 84 astronomy, 23, 51, 88, 93, 171, 245n.68, 266nn.91, 95 atheism, Hobbes’s philosophy and, 230, 253n.94, 281n.100 Aubrey, John, 9–10, 13, 116, 127, 134, 230, 242n.12, 258n.75, 270n.8, 276n.12 audience thesis, 115–20 Augustine, 250n.67, 267n.106, 275n.7 Augustus, Caesar, 138–40 Averlino, Antonia, 124 Bacon, Francis, 5, 63, 81, 141, 172, 260n.2 Banqueting House (Whitehall), 176, 186 Barlow, Thomas, 225, 282n.120 Bennett, Henry (Earl of Arlington), 146 Bess of Hardwick, 173, 285n.23 Biagioli, Mario, 94, 262n.37 Blancanus, Josephus, 94, 97–108, 112–13, 225, 265nn.75, 79–80, 266n.87 Book of Common Prayer, 145 Boyle, Robert, 123, 157–58, 268n.112 Brahe, Tycho, 94 Bruno, Giordano, 66 Buckingham. See Villiers, George (1st Duke of Buckingham) Buckley, William, Arithmetica memorativa, 25–26, 245n.67 Burckhardt, Jacob, 169–71, 284n.9 Burnet, Gilbert (Bishop), 145 Burton, Robert, 233–37; Anatomy of Melancholy, 235; Philosophaster, 235 Calvin, John, 66 Cardano, Girolamo, 254n.18 cartography, 9–11, 171–72, 242nn.4, 8, 290n.100; Hobbes’s, 9, 242nn.4, 6 Castiglione, Baldessare, Book of the Courtier, 124 Catholicism, 146 –49, 158, 278nn.45, 49 Cavendish, Charles, 177–78 Cavendish, Margaret, Blazing World and Other Writings, 287n.50 Cavendish, William (and Cavendish family) (Earl of Newcastle), 126 –29, 165, 273n.62; architecture and, 171–74, 286n.24; Charles II and, 287n.49; as Hobbes’s patron, 13–16, 24, 120, 141, 177–83, 270n.8, 273n.65, 276nn.12, 15–16; mathematical learning and, 177–78 Cavendish, William (Earl of Devonshire), 126, 173–74, 279n.65 Cecil, Robert, 275n.1 certainty: and Aristotelianism, 97–98; quest for, 66, 210 –11 charactery, 131–32, 274n.78 Charles I (King of England): Eikon Basilike, 28, 212, 296n.37; English Civil War and, 126, 128, 141, 146, 153, 229–30; execution of, 211–12, 229–30; Hobbes and, 14, 165, 292n.138; masques constructed for, Index 334 p index 178–83, 188–93; mathematical interests of, 123–24, 174 –86, 198, 286n.44; Neoplatonism and, 292n.127; Parliament and, 126, 128, 141 Charles II (King of England): Act of Oblivion and Indemnity, 145; Hobbes’s audience, as, 134, 149, 193–99, 201–4, 270n.2, 294n.2; Hobbes and, 79, 87, 118, 134, 165, 201–2, 258n.75; as mortal god, 79, 193–99; patronage, 126 –27, 165, 177, 183, 281n.100, 285n.24, 287n.49; restoration, 124 –25, 144 –46, 212, 230, 278n.48 Chatsworth, 173, 285n.23 Cheke, John, 24 –26, 245n.67 Cicero, 58, 138 civil science, Hobbes’s concept of, 55–58, 67, 76, 87, 124 –26, 253n.3 Civil War (British), 28, 137, 144 –58, 211–12 Clarendon Code, 145 Clarendon, Earl of. See Hyde, Edward (Earl of Clarendon) Clavius, Christopher, 89, 94, 97, 99–100, 103–5, 113, 262n.51, 266n.95 Collegio Romano, 95 Collins, Jeffery, 147–48 Comenius, 123, 302n.66 composition, causal reasoning and, 51–54 Connolly, William, 206 –9, 216 –19 Copernicus, Nicolaus, 5, 66 Cowley, Abraham, 214 –15 creation, mathematics and science of, 51–54 Cromwell, Oliver, 123, 154 –55, 193–94, 230, 270n.2 Cusanus, Nicolas, Hobbes compared with, 251n.76 Davenant, William, 123–24, 147, 186, 189, 195, 203, 270n.16, 293n...