Shapin, Steven. 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

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Edition

1st Princeton pbk. print. with corrections

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-426) and index Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, MPublishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet

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

Extended title: 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
Alternate titles: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life

Air-pump Physics Science Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. Leviathan Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691

author: Shapin, Steven
subject: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
associated with: Schaffer, Simon, 1955-
associated with: American Council of Learned Societies