HOBBES, Thomas.

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Opera philosophica, First edition of parts III, IV, and V of Hobbes' collected works, bound together as recommended by the printer in the Admonitiuncula ad lectorem to form his Elementa Philosophiae trilogy. The eight parts were all sold separately and are encountered in various arrangements."Although Hobbes would not publish any part of it until 1642, he devised the plan of his Elementa Philosophiae (Elements of Philosophy) in the late 1630s. The work was intended to be a comprehensive treatment of reality that would reduce everything to one of three kinds of things: body, man, and citizen. So, Elementa Philosophiae was to be a trilogy: one section devoted to physics, one section to human nature and one to political philosophy" (Martinich, p. 118). De Cive in particular looks ahead to the political science advanced in Hobbes's most celebrated work Leviathan (1651). The three parts of this volume are De Corpore, De Homine and De Cive.

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