Hobbes and cluverius

Historical Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1075-1078

  Springborg, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84877030578     PISSN: 0018246X     EISSN: 14695103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X00024766     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. John Aubrey, in Brief lives, edited from the Author's MSS by Andrew Clark (2 vols., Oxford, 1898), 1, 338.
2. Thomas Hobbes, Historia ecclesiastica carmine elegiaco concinnata, ed. with a preface by Thomas Rymer (London, 1688).
3. English paraphrase, A true ecclesiastical history from Moses to the time of Martin Luther, in verse (London, 1722).
4. Ph. Clüver, alias Philip Cluverius, An introduction to geography both ancient and modern, comprised in sixe books (Oxford, 1657).
5. Molesworth's introduction to the Historia ecclesiastica, in Thomas Hobbes, Opera philosophica quae Latine scripsit omnia, Sir William Molesworth, ed. (5 vols., London referred to as L.W.), v, 342.
6. Richard Tuck, notes to Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or the matter, forme and power of a commonwealth ecclesiastical and civil, ed. Richard Tuck (Cambridge, 1991), p. lii.
7. See Martin Bernal, 'Black Athena: the African and Levantine roots of Greece', in African presence in early Europe. Journal of African Civilizations, VII, 5 (1985), 66-82;
8. Martin Bernal, 'Black Athena denied: the tyranny of Germany over Greece', Comparative Criticism, VIII (1986), 3-69;
9. Martin Bernal, Black Athena: the Afro-Asiatic roots of classical civilization (2 vols., London, 1987, 1992);
10. Patricia Springborg, Western republicanism and the oriental prince (Cambridge, 1992), chs. 7-10.
11. Historia ecclesiastica, lines 170-200, 1688 edn, pp. 9-10; 1722 edn, pp. 12-15.
12. Historia ecclesiastica, lines 240-80, 1688 edn, pp. 12-14; 1722 edn, pp. 17-19.
13. In The English works of Thomas Hobbes, ed. Sir William Molesworth (11 vols., London, 1839-45, referred to as E.W.), VI, 278-9.
14. Historia ecclesiastica, 1688 edn, p. v; 1722 edn quoted here, p. iii.
15. On the competing claims to ancient wisdom of the Egyptians and the Israelites, see Paolo Rossi's The dark abyss of time, Lydia G. Cochrane, trans. (Chicago, 1984);
16. John Gascoigne, "'The wisdom of the Egyptians" and the secularization of history in the age of Newton'
17. and Garry W. Trompf, 'On Newtonian history', in Stephen Gaukroger, ed., The uses of antiquity (Dordrecht, 1992)5 PP- 171-212, 213-49.
18. Hobbes, Historia ecclesiastica, 1688, pp. 8-9.
19. Cliiver, 1645, p. 353. The term homoousion, 'one substance', was used by the Council of Nicaea, a.d. 325, to define the doctrine of the Trinity, as opposed to the term homoiousion, 'like substance', favoured by the Arians. It is interesting that the OED gives the first English reference to the term as Gibbon, Decline and fall, ii.xxi, pp. 251, 252: 'Their [sc. the Arians'] patron, Eusebius of Nicodemia,. confessed, that the admission of the Homoousion, or Consubstantial. was incompatible with the principles of their theological system'; 'The mysterious Homoousion, which either party was free to interpret according to their peculiar tenets'.
20. See Patricia Springborg, 'Hobbes, heresy and the Historia ecclesiastica' Journal of the History of Ideas, LV, 4 (1994), 553-71.