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Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

Simon Schaffer
Steven Shapin

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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
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Nov 2017
Dimensions: 142 x 216 x 31 mm
ISBN: 9780691178165