Thomas Hobbes and Margaret Cavendish
The Blazing World of Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish was a celebrity aristocrat, poet, novelist, dramatist, philosopher and scientist. She wrote one of the first novels in English, one of the first ever works of science fiction, and she was the first woman to attend a meeting of the Royal Society, the British home of modern science.
The Life and Death of Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was a philosopher and political theorist. His work was enormously influential, but also deeply controversial. He is best known for Leviathan, in which he argues that a safe and stable society can only be created by citizens submitting their rights to a sovereign with absolute power. He had a long association with the Cavendish family.
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