Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Name: Leviathan and the Air-Pump
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Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

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Princeton Classics

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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 inve

Author Biography:

Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Simon Schaffer is professor of history of science at the University of Cambridge.

Release date Australia

November 14th, 2017

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Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Edition

Revised edition

Illustrations

22 b/w illus.

Pages

448

Series

Princeton Classics

ISBN-13

9780691178165

Product ID

26794954

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