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Thomas Hobbes and the Duke of Newcastle: A Study in the Mutuality of Patronage before the Establishment of the Royal Society

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Sarasohn, Lisa T.

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This study shows how patronage framed and fashioned the careers of Thomas Hobbes and his patron William Cavendish, the earl of Newcastle. Newcastle's protection allowed Hobbes to articulate heterodox ideas without immediate fear of reprisal. It also enabled him to solidify his status as a gentleman and the intellectual equal...

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without compulsion: Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Richard Tuck (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 62
Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind (review)

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Sarasohn, Lisa T.

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of the system of signatures: see the second chap- ter of The Order of Things, trans. Alan Sheridan
Aristocratic Culture and the Pursuit of Science : The De Broglies in Modern France

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Nye, Mary Jo

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Louis de Broglie received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 following experimental confirmation of his theory of the wave properties of the electron. De Broglie was an anomaly among twentieth-century physicists: he was a prince by birth who would become the seventh duc de Broglie. What did it mean...

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Rothschilds and the Englishman Sir Richard Wallace. Their maternal grandmother, born Celestine de Segur, in