Brief lives : together with an apparatus for the lives of our English mathematical writers and the life of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

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Brief lives : together with an apparatus for the lives of our English mathematical writers and the life of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

John Aubrey ; selected and edited with introduction, glossary and notes by John Buchanan-Brown ; foreword by Michael Hunter

(Penguin classics)

Penguin, c2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxiv-xxxvi) and index

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Compiled as material for Anthony Wood's histories of Oxford University, this text contributes to the oral history of Elizabethan and Stuart England. It parades statesmen, poets, philosopers and scientists, Raleigh and Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, and Boyle and Halley. They, together with less well known figures, are brought to life in the recorded memories of a vast circle of Aubrey's acquaintance and from the personal knowledge of an author who revelled in the variety of human nature and in the intimate, specific and sometimes scandalous aspects of his subjects' lives.

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