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Gender and Boyle's law of gases /

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Potter, Elizabeth
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2000, 2001.
Collection:Race, gender, and science.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Now we see it
  • Now we don't
  • Economics, politics, and religion: Stuart conflicts with Parliament
  • Civil war approaches
  • The intersection of class and gender politics
  • The Boyle family's religious and class politics
  • More class and gender politics
  • Boyle's gender politics
  • Boyle's background reading
  • Boyle's hermeticism, magic, and active principles
  • Hermeticism, hylozoism, and radical politics
  • Boyle's concern over the sectaries
  • Boyle's objections to hylozoism
  • Experimental support for the corpuscular philosophy
  • Boyle's law of gases
  • The production of an alternative law
  • Methodological considerations
  • "The data alone proved Boyle's hypothesis"
  • Good science.