De Corpore

De Corpore

De Corpore (On the Body) is a 1655 book by Thomas Hobbes. As its full Latin title Elementorum philosophiae sectio prima De corpore implies, it was part of a larger work, conceived as a trilogy. De Cive had already appeared, while De Homine would be published in 1658. Hobbes had in fact been drafting De Corpore for at least a decade before its appearance, putting it aside for other matters.[1]

Although the chosen title would suggest a work of natural philosophy, De Corpore is largely devoted to foundational matters. It consists of four sections. Part I covers logic. Part II and Part III concern “abstract bodies”: the second part is a repertoire of scientific concepts, and the third of geometry. The Chapters 16 to 20 of Part III are in fact devoted to mathematics generally, in a reductive way, and proved controversial. They proposed a kinematic foundation for geometry, which Hobbes wished to equate with mathematics; geometry itself, that is, is a “science of motion”. Hobbes here adopts ideas from Galileo and Cavalieri. The inclusion of a claimed solution for squaring the circle, an apparent afterthought rather than a systematic development, and largely retracted by Hobbes himself, led to an extended pamphlet war. It is in Part IV, on natural phenomena, that there is discussion of physics as such.[2][3]

See also

  • Hobbes-Wallis controversy

Notes

  1. ^ Tom Sorell, The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (1996), pp. 29-31.
  2. ^ http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Hobbes.html
  3. ^ Stephen J. Finn, Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy (2006), pp. 42-5.

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