Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris by Simon Schaffer /
Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1985
xiv, 440 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-426) and index
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 -- Appendix. Translation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus
Dialogus physicus de natura aeris / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679