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:
- 1989, ©1985
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Also known as
Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life
Publication/Creation
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1989, ©1985.
Physical description
xiv, 440 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series
Edition
1st Princeton pbk. print. with corrections.
Contents
Understanding experiment -- Seeing and believing : the experimental production of pneumatic facts -- Seeing double : Hobbes's politics of plenism before 1660 -- The trouble with experiment : Hobbes versus Boyle -- Boyle's adversaries : experiment defended -- Replication and its troubles : air-pumps in the 1660s -- Natural philosophy and the restoration : interests in dispute -- The polity of science : conclusions -- Translation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-426) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.