For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body

LEVIATHAN
ENGINE

Hobbes's Leviathan as the mechanism he said it was: from matter in motion at the bottom, through sense, speech, reason and the passions, to the Common-wealth at the top. Every wheel bears his own definition, in the spelling of 1651.

Wind the mechanism

Introduction and Parts 1–2 of the 1651 edition. Sound and motion follow the winding.