Thomas White's de Mundo Examined
by: Thomas Hobbes / Harold Whitmore Jones (transl)

Hardcover. London, Bradford University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 518 pages. At a time when Hobbes's work was mostly unpublished, he seizes on Thomas White's "De Mundo" (1642) and subjects it to detailed scrutiny, adding material of his own. Most of his interests are represented: mathematics, optics, navigation, astronomy and theology. Translated from the Latin. Clean copy.