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“Thomas Hobbes was born in 1588 and lived till 1679. His life thus extends from the defeat of the Spanish Armada to the beginning of the Popish Plot; from the year in which the independence of Protestant England was finally ensured to the period when the threat to restore Catholicism in England was less a political reality than the stunt of a Parliamentary party. The revolution of 1640 occurred after Hobbes was 50 years old, when his main ideas had taken form.”1
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Freudenthal, G. (1986). England Before the Revolution. In: Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 88. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4500-5_9
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