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attacks by Wallis had successfully diminished his reputation, by showing that he was a lightweight in mathematics, part of a bigger polemic plan to show his thought generally as unoriginal, coming secondhand from others. Another simple explanation is that Hobbes was too "controversial" in the modern sense: he was excluded for reasons of image management.
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that the general position of Hobbes, in 'mechanistic philosophy', was close enough to that current in the Royal Society to be compatible (even given the debate with Boyle), but that his reputation from the political and religious side made him untouchable, and the Society kept him at arm's length for
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Hobbes never became a Fellow of the Royal Society, which was formally founded right at the time when the controversy drew in Boyle, and it has been debated why. Possible explanations are that he was difficult (cantankerous, even), and in other ways incompatible with the Society as club; or that the
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science could achieve. It offered demonstrably certain knowledge. The creation and interaction of lines could clearly be conceived as a product of matter in motion, whose properties could be demonstrated with the highest level of certainty. Wallis, by contrast was the foremost exponent of Cartesian
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Hobbes was an easy target, on the ground chosen by Wallis. The failure of his attempts to solve the impossible problems he set himself were inevitable, but he neither backed down completely, nor applied adequate self-criticism. And on the level of character, Wallis was as intransigent as Hobbes was
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Part of the significance of the controversy is that Hobbes felt that, in the later stages, the Royal Society was in some way complicit in the attacks from Wallis, despite the fact that he had many friends as Fellows in it. This attitude presented one of the obstacles to Hobbes himself becoming a
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writes: "There is no doubt that at the personal level Wallis behaved badly (as was widely conceded at the time)." The fact that Wallis was a Presbyterian, a university man, and an anti-Royalist during the civil war made him "three times an enemy to Hobbes", as
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walked through Hobbes's proof in one version, clearing the radicals to come down to a numerical assertion it implied (97,336 = 97,556), which could only be accepted as an approximation. Hobbes replied with an idiosyncratic appeal to a form of
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The sustained nature of the exchanges can be attributed to several strands of the intellectual situation of the time. In mathematics there were open issues, namely the priority (pedagogic, or theoretical) to be assigned to geometry and
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to the answer 2. While Hobbes would withdraw some arguments as erroneous, he distinguished between "errors of negligence" and "errors of principle", and found the latter much harder to admit. He was led to argue that the doctrine of
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by Hobbes. While Hobbes retracted this particular proof, he returned to the topic with other attempted proofs. A pamphleteering exchange continued for decades. It drew in the newly formed
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reports that Hobbes thought he had a small group of enemies there. Wallis, Ward and Wilkins were indeed key members of the early Royal Society, having been in the precursor group ("
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lost him allies who may have shared somewhat in his starting assumptions, but who felt a need to distance themselves from his conclusions, as Ward did in his
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in the same year, saying the controversy was not merely scientific. He regarded the use of infinite quantities as the thin end of the wedge for a return of
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Wallis publicly refuted the solution, but Hobbes claimed the credit of it. He republished it (in modified form), with his remarks, at the end of the 1661
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After a time Hobbes began a further period of controversial activity, which he dragged out until his ninetieth year. The first piece, published in 1666,
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Hobbes reacted to personal attack by keeping aloof from scientific controversy for some years. He did write a letter about himself in the third person,
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Dialogus physicus, sive, De natura aeris conjectura sumpta ab experimentis nuper Londini habitis in Collegio Greshamensi, item de duplicatione cubi
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Marks of the Absurd Geometry, Rural Language, Scottish Church Politics, and Barbarisms of John Wallis, Professor of Geometry and Doctor of Divinity
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of Hobbes; and the preface to that book has been attributed to Ward. But the emergence of the full scope of the philosophy of Hobbes in
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Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements: British Algebra Through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick
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Infinity and creation: the origin of the controversy between Thomas Hobbes and the Savilian professors Seth Ward and John Wallis
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translation. Wallis defended himself, and re-confronted Hobbes with his mathematical inconsistencies. Hobbes responded with
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th roots in algebra (one contribution of Wallis) did not adequately model the geometric notions based on area and volume.
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refers to the Presbyterianism of Wallis, not shared by Owen) has been seen as a presage of later analysis of
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academic system, essentially a monopoly in England of university teaching. These attacks, especially that of
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Hobbes took care to remove some mistakes exposed by Wallis, before allowing an English translation of the
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and by the spring of 1660, he had put his criticism and assertions into five dialogues under the title
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Marks of the Absurd Geometry, Rural Language, Scottish Church Politics, and Barbarisms of John Wallis
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The issue of the universities was heavily loaded at the time, and the orthodox Presbyterian minister
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The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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was a polemic debate that continued from the mid-1650s well into the 1670s, between the philosopher
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Science, Religion and Politics in Restoration England: Richard Cumberland's De Legibus Naturae
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Examinatio et emendatio mathematicae hodiernae qualis explicatur in libris Johannis Wallisii
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and other friends of Wallis who were forming themselves into a society (incorporated as the
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Examinatio et emendatio mathematicae hodiernae qualis explicatur in libris Johannis Wallisii
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Hobbes then tried another tack, having solved, as he thought, another ancient problem, the
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professors. Wallis joined in, but the first wave of rebuttals came from other major names.
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For Hobbes, his new form of geometrical demonstration was the finest example of what a
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Considerations upon the Reputation, Loyalty, Manners and Religion of Thomas Hobbes's
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Considerations upon the Reputation, Loyalty, Manners and Religion of Thomas Hobbes's
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Who was then the Gentleman?: Samuel Sorbière, Thomas Hobbes and the Royal Society
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Wallis published a comprehensive treatise on the general principles of calculus (
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of 1652. Ward went on to make a full-dress attack on Hobbes the philosopher, the
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in 1662) for experimental research. The full Latin title of the book mentioned
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Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century
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Serjeantson, R. W. (2006). "Hobbes and the Universities". In Condren, Conal;
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A Philosophicall Essay towards an Eviction of the Being and Attributes of God
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It is possible that Hobbes's objections to academia extended to the Society.
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The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity
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Journal of the History of Ideas, 48, No. 2, (1987) pp. 265–286
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to publish his critical views, for example in a review of Hobbes's
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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dogmatic, and this inflicted damage on both of their reputations.
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Mathematics and Philosophy: Wallis, Hobbes, Barrow, and Berkeley.
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An examen of Mr. T. Hobbes his Dialogus Physicus de Natura Aeris
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Recent scholarly explanations are more complex. It is argued by
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to appear in 1656. But he still attacked Wallis in a series of
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to the assaults. It was an anonymous publication of Ward and
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The dream of Enlightenment: The rise of modern philosophy
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Squaring the Circle: Hobbes on Philosophy and Geometry
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Squaring the Circle: The War Between Hobbes and Wallis
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Quadratura circuli, Cubatio sphaerae, Duplicitio cubii
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Gresham College and the formation of the Royal Society
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http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/hobbes/life
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Change and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century England
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Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de Vacuo
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Humane Nature; or the Fundamental Elements of Policy
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Quentin Skinner therefore proposed, in a 1969 paper
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Index

Hobbes-Wallis controversy

Thomas Hobbes

John Wallis
Thomas Hobbes
John Wallis
De corpore
physics
geometry
kinematics
squaring of the circle
Royal Society
experimental philosophy
algebra
William Oughtred
Quentin Skinner
Anthony Gottlieb
The Dream of Enlightenment
Leviathan
Oxbridge
John Webster
Oxford
Thomas Hall
heresy
Seth Ward
Savilian Professor of Astronomy
John Wilkins
Walter Warner
Savilian Professor of Geometry

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