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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Shapin, Steven (Author), Schaffer, Simon, 1955- (Author)
Other Authors: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Hobbes, Thomas, > 1588-1679. > Leviathan.
Boyle, Robert, > 1627-1691.
Boyle, Robert, > 1627-1691
Boyle, Robert > 1627-1691
Hobbes, Thomas > 1588-1679
Hobbes, Thomas, > 1588-1679.
Leviathan (Hobbes, Thomas)
1600-1699
Physics > England > History > 17th century.
Air-pumps > History > 17th century.
Physics > Experiments > History.
Science > England > History > 17th century.
Physique > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Pompes à air > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Physique > Expériences > Histoire.
Sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Sciences.
Physique.
Expérimentation.
Histoire.
Air-pumps.
Physics.
Physics > Experiments.
Science.
Experiment
Naturphilosophie
Luftpumpe.
Experiment.
Naturphilosophie.
Luftpumpar > historia.
Royaume-Uni.
England.
England
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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
  • Appendix. Translation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus.

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