 This section tells a version of the first story. (For a helpful recent critical discussion of such an approach, see Hattab 2014.) Still, one should note that Hobbes sometimes uses the language of mathematical method, of analysis and synthesis, in describing his general method (Hobbes 1655, 6.1). Several commentators have seen this, together with his clear admiration for the successes of geometry, as evidence of a more general use of mathematical notions in his account of method (Talaska 1988). Adams 2019 argues that Hobbes “proceeds by a method of synthetic demonstration” in both geometry and political philosophy. And it might indeed be the case that both stories about Hobbes’s method (the Zabarellan and the mathematical) have some truth to them.