1. Thomas hobbes,Leviathan, CB Michael Oakeshott (ed) (Penguin, 1985) 132.
2. Thomas hobbes,The Elements of Law Natural and Politic, part I, Ferdinand Tonnies (ed) (Cambridge University Press, 1928 [1640]) ch 6, § 9.
3. See barbara J Shapiro,A Culture of Fact: England, 1550–1720(Cornell university Press, 2000) 47–51.
4. Thomas Gumble,The Life of General Monck(London, 1671) Preface.
5. See Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer,Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life(Princeton university Press, 1989); Steven Shapin,The Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England(university of Chicago Press, 1994).