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.
An Answer to Archbishop Bramhall’s Book called the Catching of the Leviathan, London 1682 in 8vo.
Seven Philosophical Problems, and two Positions of Geometry, London 1682 in 8vo. dedicated to the King 1662.
An Apology for himself and his Writings, of which we have already taken notice.
Historia Ecclesiastica carmine elegiaco concinnata, London 1688 in 8vo.
Tractatus Opticus, inserted in Mersennus’s Cogitata
Physico-Mathematica, Paris 1644 in 4to.
He translated into English Verse the Voyages of Ulysses,
or Homer’s
Odysseys. B. ix, x, xi, xii. London 1674
in 8vo.
Homer’s Iliads and Odysse[y]s, London 1675, and 1677 in 12mo; to which is prefixed a Preface concerning Heroic Poetry. Mr. Pope in his Preface to his Translation of Homer’s Iliad, says, ’that Mr. Hobbs, in his Version, has given a correct explanation of the sense in general, but for particulars and circumstances, lops them, and often omits the most beautiful. As for its being a close translation, I doubt not, many have been led into that error by the shortness of it, which proceeds not from the following the original line by line, but from the contractions above mentioned. He sometimes omits whole similes and sentences, and is now and then guilty of mistakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen but through carelessness. His poetry, like Ogilby’s, is too mean for criticism.’ He left behind likewise several MSS. Mr. Francis Peck has published two original Letters of our author; the first is dated at Paris October 21, 1634, in which he resolves the following question. Why a man remembers less his own face, which he sees often in a glass, than the face of a friend he has not seen a great time? The other Letter is dated at Florence, addressed to his friend Mr. Glen 1636, and relates to Dr. Heylin’s History of the Sabbath.


