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 - Shapin, Steven; Schaffer, Simon, 1955-; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.; American Council of Learned Societies (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1989)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-426) and index.
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Keywords: Hobbes, Thomas, -- 1588-1679.; Boyle, Robert, -- 1627-1691.; Air-pump -- History; Physics -- Experiments -- History; Science