The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II.Cibber, Theophilus
History
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II.
Cibber, Theophilus
Poets, English -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Poets, Irish -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
Dialogus Physicus, sive de Natura Aeris, London 1661 in 4to.
De Duplicatione Cubi, London 1661, 4to. Amsterdam 1668 in 4to.
Problemata Physica, una cum magnitudine Circuli, London 1662, 4to.
De Principiis et Ratiocinatione Geometrarum, contra sastuosum
Professorem Geometrae, Amsterdam 1668 in 4to.
Quadratura Circuli, Cubatio sphaerae, Duplicatio Cubi; una cum
Responsione ad Objectiones Geometriae Professoris Saviliani Oxoniae
editas Anno 1669, London in 4to. 1669.
Rosetum Geometricum, sive Propositiones aliquot frustra antehac
tentatae, cum censura brevi Doctrinae Wallisianae de Motu, London 1671 in
4to. There is an account of this book in the Philosophical
Transactions, Numb. 72, for the year 1671.
Three Papers presented to the Royal Society against Dr. Wallis, with
Considerations on Dr. Wallis's Answer to them, London 1671, 4to.
Lux Mathematica &c.
Censura Doctrinae Wallisianae de Libra.
Rosetura Hobbesii, London 1672 in quarto.
Principia et Problemata aliquot Geometrica ante desperata, nunc
breviter explicata & demonstrata, London 1674, 4to.
Epistola ad Dom. Ant. Wood Authorem Historiae & Antiquitat Universit.
Oxon. dated April 20, 1674; the substance of this letter is to
complain of the figure which Mr. Wood makes him appear in, in that
work; Hobbs, who had an infinite deal of vanity, thought he was
entitled to higher encomiums, and more a minute relation of his life
than that gentleman gave. An Answer was written to it by Dr. Fell, in
which Hobbs is treated with no great ceremony.
A Letter to William, Duke of Newcastle, concerning the Controversy he
had with Dr. Laney, Bishop of Ely, about Liberty and Necessity, London
1670 in 12mo.
Decameron Phisiologicum, or Ten Dialogues on Natural Philosophy,
London 1678, 8vo. To this is added the Proportion of a Straight Line
to hold the Arch of a Quadrant; an account of this book is published
in the Philosophical Transactions, Numb. 138.
His Last Words, and Dying Legacy, printed December 1679, and published
by Charles Blunt, Esq; from the Leviathan, in order to expose Mr.
Hobbs's Doctrine.
His Memorable Sayings in his Books, and at the Table, printed with his
picture before it.
Behemoth, the History of the Civil Wars of England, from 1640 to 1660,
printed London, 1679.
Vita Thomae Hobbs; this is a Latin Poem, written by himself, and
printed in 4to, 1679.
Historical Narration of Heresy, and the Punishment thereof, London
1680, in four sheets and a half in folio, and in 1682 in 8vo. of this
we have already made some mention.
Vita Thomae Hobbs, written by himself in prose, and printed at
Caropolis, i.e. London, and prefixed to Vitae Hobbianae Auctarium 1681
in 8vo. and 1682 in 4to.
A Brief of the Art of Rhetoric, containing the Substance of all that
Aristotle hath written in his three Books on that Subject, printed in
12mo. but without a date.
A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Law of
England.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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