Leviathan and the Air-Pump : : Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life / / Simon Schaffer, Steven Shapin.
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,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Classics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 22 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION
- NOTES ON SOURCES AND CONVENTIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- I. Understanding Experiment
- II. Seeing and Believing: The Experimental Production of Pneumatic Facts
- III. Seeing Double: Hobbes's Politics of Plenism before 1660
- IV. The Trouble with Experiment: Hobbes versus Boyle
- V. Boyle's Adversaries: Experiment Defended
- VI. Replication and Its Troubles: Air-Pumps in the i66os
- VII. Natural Philosophy and the Restoration: Interests in Dispute
- VIII. The Polity of Science: Conclusions
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX