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Leviathan and the air-pump Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Simon Schaffer

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.
Author
Shapin, Steven
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1989, c1985.

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Additional Authors
  • Schaffer, Simon, 1955-
  • Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
  • American Council of Learned Societies
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
  • Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
  • Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
  • Air-pumps > History
  • Physics > Experiments > History
  • Science > England > History
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.
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Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
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/
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