- Additional Authors
- Found In
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
- Description
- xiv, 440 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Uniform Title
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Alternative Title
- Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-426) and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic text and image data.
- Contents
- Understanding experiment -- Seeing and believing : the experimental production of pneumatic facts -- Seeing double : Hobbes's politics of plenism before 1660 -- The trouble with experiment : Hobbes versus Boyle -- Boyle's adversaries : experiment defended -- Replication and its troubles : air-pumps in the 1660s -- Natural philosophy and the restoration : interests in dispute -- The polity of science : conclusions -- Translation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus.
- OCLC
- (dli)HEB05328
- Author
Shapin, Steven.
- Title
Leviathan and the air-pump [electronic resource] : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Simon Schaffer / Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer.
- Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1989, c1985.
- Edition
1st Princeton pbk. print. with corrections.
- Series
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-426) and index.
- Reproduction
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 access: Intranet.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Schaffer, Simon, 1955-
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. Dialogus physicus de natura aeris. English.
American Council of Learned Societies.
- Found In:
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/