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Leviathan and the air-pump [electronic resource] : Hobbes, Boy le, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbe s, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Simon Schaffer / Steven Sha pin & Simon Schaffer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1989, c1985.Edition: 1st Princeton pbk. print. with correctionsDescription: xiv, 440 p. : ill. ; 25 cmOther title:
  • Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life
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Contents:
Understanding experiment -- Seeing and believing : the experimental production of pneumatic facts -- Seeing double : Hobbes's politics of p lenism before 1660 -- The trouble with experiment : Hobbes versus Boyle -- Boyle's adversaries : experiment defended -- Replication and its tr oubles : air-pumps in the 1660s -- Natural philosophy and the restorati on : interests in dispute -- The polity of science : conclusions -- Tra nslation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-426) and index.

Understanding experiment -- Seeing and believing : the experimental production of pneumatic facts -- Seeing double : Hobbes's politics of p lenism before 1660 -- The trouble with experiment : Hobbes versus Boyle -- Boyle's adversaries : experiment defended -- Replication and its tr oubles : air-pumps in the 1660s -- Natural philosophy and the restorati on : interests in dispute -- The polity of science : conclusions -- Tra nslation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet.

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