Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Thomas Hobbes across 4 places, from 1588 to 1679.
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Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Thomas Hobbes was documented, and when
5 April 1588exact date
Westport, Wiltshireattested“Thomas Hobbes was born on 5 April 1588 (Old Style), in Westport, now part of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
5 April 1588exact date
Wiltshireattested“Thomas Hobbes was born on 5 April 1588 (Old Style), in Westport, now part of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1601 to 1602period
Magdalen Hallattested“Hobbes was a good pupil, and between 1601 and 1602 he went to Magdalen Hall, the predecessor to Hertford College, Oxford, where he was taught scholastic logic and mathematics.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
4 December 1679exact date
Hardwick Hallattested“In October 1679 Hobbes suffered a bladder disorder, and then a paralytic stroke, from which he died on 4 December 1679, aged 91, at Hardwick Hall, owned by the Cavendish family.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
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1608year
St John's College, Cambridgementioned“degree by incorporation at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1608.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1612year
Englandmentioned“James I had invited both men to England in 1612.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1615year
Englandmentioned“When he returned to England in 1615, William Cavendish maintained correspondence with Micanzio and Sarpi, and Hobbes translated the latter's letters from Italian, which were circulated among the Duke's circle.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1636year
Florencementioned“He visited Galileo Galilei in Florence while he was under house arrest upon condemnation, in 1636, and was later a regular debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by Marin Mersenne.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1636year
Parismentioned“He visited Galileo Galilei in Florence while he was under house arrest upon condemnation, in 1636, and was later a regular debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by Marin Mersenne.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1637year
Parismentioned“Hobbes came back home from Paris in 1637, to a country riven with discontent, which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
November 1640month
Parismentioned“When in November 1640 the Long Parliament succeeded the Short, Hobbes felt that he was in disfavour due to the circulation of his treatise and fled to Paris.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1641year
Parismentioned“In Paris, he rejoined the coterie around Mersenne and wrote a critique of the Meditations on First Philosophy of René Descartes, which was printed as third among the sets of "Objections" appended, with "Replies" from Descartes, in 1641.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1642 to 1644period
Parismentioned“The English Civil War began in 1642, and when the royalist cause began to decline in mid-1644, many royalists came to Paris and were known to Hobbes.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1646year
Amsterdammentioned“The printing began in 1646 by Samuel de Sorbiere through the Elsevier press in Amsterdam with a new preface and some new notes in reply to objections.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1647year
Jerseymentioned“In 1647, Hobbes took up a position as mathematical instructor to the young Charles, Prince of Wales, who had come to Paris from Jersey around July.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1647year
Parismentioned“In 1647, Hobbes took up a position as mathematical instructor to the young Charles, Prince of Wales, who had come to Paris from Jersey around July.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1648year
Hollandmentioned“This engagement lasted until 1648, when Charles went to Holland.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
1651year
Londonmentioned“Hobbes appealed to the revolutionary English government for protection and fled back to London in winter 1651.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hobbes
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