Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. 2 The Humanist Face of Hobbes’s Mathematics, Part 1 9
6. 3 Constraints That Enable the Imitation of God 35
7. 4 King of the Children of Pride: The Imitation of God in Context 55
8. 5 Architectonic Ambitions: Mathematics and the Demotion of Physics 81
9. 6 Eloquence and the Audience Thesis 115
10. 7 All Other Doctrines Exploded: Hobbes, History, and the Struggle over Teaching 137
11. 8 The Humanist Face of Hobbes’s Mathematics, Part 2: Leviathan and the Making of a Masque-Text 161
12. 9 Conclusion 201
13. Appendix: Who Is a Geometer? 221
14. Notes 239
15. Bibliography 303
16. Index 333