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Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Leviathan and the Air-Pump

By Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer

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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 Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge...Show more

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9780691178165

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Princeton University Press

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2017

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1

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Leviathan and the Air-Pump

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