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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Princeton Classics ; 109
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.) :; 22 b/w illus.
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