Shapin, Steven.

Leviathan and the air-pump Hobbes, Boy le, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbe s, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Simon Schaffer / [electronic resource] : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life Steven Sha pin & Simon Schaffer. - 1st Princeton pbk. print. with corrections. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1989, c1985. - xiv, 440 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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.


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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. Leviathan.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.


Air-pump-- History.
Physics-- Experiments-- History.
Science