Includes bibliographical references (p. [553]-605) and index

1. A Summary Biography of Hobbes -- 2. Hobbes and Spinoza -- 3. Hobbes, Sandys, and the Virginia Company -- 4. Robert Payne, the Hobbes Manuscripts, and the 'Short Tract' -- 5. Hobbes's Science of Politics and his Theory of Science -- 6. Hobbes and Roberval -- 7. The Title Page of Leviathan, Seen in a Curious Perspective -- 8. Charles Cotton, Translator of Hobbes's De cive -- 9. Pierre de Cardonnel (1614-1667): Merchant, Printer, Poet, and Reader of Hobbes -- 10. Hobbes and the Royal Society -- 11. The Printing of the 'Bear': New Light on the Second Edition of Hobbes's Leviathan -- 12. Hobbes, Ezra, and the Bible: The History of a Subversive Idea -- 13. Hobbes's Theory of International Relations -- 14. Hobbes and the European Republic of Letters