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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes, detail of an oil painting by John Michael Wright; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
At the age of 15, Thomas Hobbes entered Magdalen Hall at the University of Oxford, where he pursued and completed a traditional arts degree.12
It is important to note that while he studied the traditional curriculum of the time, he was not trained in mathematics or the sciences during his tenure at Oxford; his early education was instead focused primarily on classical languages. During his time at the university, he developed a personal interest in maps in his spare time.31