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Steven Shapin

American sociologist

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Historical sociology

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Works

12 works

    • Books

    The Pottery Philosophical Society, 1819-1835 : an examination of the cultural uses of provincial science / Steven A. Shapin.

    Shapin, Steven. | Date: 1972
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    Leviathan and the air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris by Simon Schaffer / Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer.

    Shapin, Steven. | Date: 1985
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    The Royal Society of Edinburgh : a study of the social context of Hanoverian science; a dissertation in the history and sociology of science / [Steven Arthur Shapin].

    Shapin, Steven. | Date: 1971
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    Never pure : historical studies of science as if it was produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture, and society, and struggling for credibility and authority / Steven Shapin.

    Shapin, Steven. | Date: 2010
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    Darwin and social Darwinism : purity and history / Steven Shapin, Barry Barnes.

    Shapin, Steven | Date: 1979
All works (13)

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S. Barry Barnes

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