Malmesbury
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Malmesbury is a town and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, which lies approximately 14 miles west of Swindon, 25 miles northeast of Bristol, 9 miles north of Chippenham and 5 miles south of Te
Malmesbury Abbey
Abbey Gardens along the River Avon
The interior of Malmesbury Abbey
Malmesbury Town Hall
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to
Malmesbury
…sometimes called Westport St. Mary, was a village and civil parish immediately west of Malmesbury, outside the confines of the hilltop. The philosopher Thomas Hobbes was born in Westport in 1588; his father, also Thomas, lived at Westport while serving as curate of Brokenborough. Westport no longer exists as a…
Portrait by John Michael Wright, c. 1669–70
Frontispiece from De Cive (1642)
Thomas Hobbes. Line engraving by William Faithorne, 1668
Tomb of Thomas Hobbes in St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall, in Derbyshire