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1588 : April 5, born 1602 : goes to Magdalen Hall, Oxford 1608 : February, receives his BA; later that year becomes tutor to William Cavendish 1610–15 : tours the Continent with William Cavendish (his tutee) 1615 : returns to England 1626 : first earl of Devonshire dies 1628 : June, second earl of Devonshire dies 1629 : translation of Thucydides published 1630 : resumes employment with family of the earl of Devonshire 1634–6 : third trip to the Continent; with the third earl of Devonshire 1635 : begins association with Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, and other French philosophers 1636 : visits Galileo (probably that year); returns to England in October 1640 : May, The Elements of Law circulated in manuscript; published 1650 in two parts without Hobbes's permission, as Humane Nature and De Corpore Politico ; mid-November, flees to France 1641 : Third Set of Objections to Descartes's Meditations published 1642 : De Cive published; English translation published in 1651 as Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society 1642–3 : writes critique of Thomas White's De Mundo 1645 : debates with John Bramhall about free will; writes Of Liberty and Necessity at the request of the marquis of Newcastle 1646 : becomes tutor in mathematics to the future King Charles II 1647 : second edition of De Cive published; Hobbes becomes seriously ill 1651 : Leviathan published ... log in or subscribe to read full text