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Leviathan and the air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : with a new introduction by the authors /

"Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert B...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Shapin, Steven (Autor), Schaffer, Simon, 1955- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Appendix. Translation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus.