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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer
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| #1262496 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1989-10-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.17 x6.15 x9.28l,1.45 | File type: PDF | 456 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| About as good as scholarly work gets.|By Andrew Louis Black|I'm very glad this book is back in print, because I bought a very expensive copy several years ago just so I could own it.
This is one of the best books I've ever read - fictional or non: a compelling, impossibly sophisticated account of history, science, philosophy, and epistemology. A continuing project of||". . . Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer have ventured beyond ordinary history of science or history of ideas to produce a novel 'exercise in the sociology of scientific knowledge.' . . . a historical study rich in new interpretations and notable for the use of
In the aftermath of the English Civil War, as people were groping for new forms of political order, Robert Boyle built an air-pump to do experiments. Does the story of Roundheads and Restoration have something to do with the origins of experimental science? Schaffer and Shapin believed it does.
Focusing on the debates between Boyle and his archcritic Thomas Hobbes over the air-pump, the authors proposed that "solutions to the problem of k...
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