Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris by Simon Schaffer /
First Statement of Responsibility
Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Princeton, N.J. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Princeton University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1985
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiv, 440 pages :
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illustrations ;
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25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-426) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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Dialogus physicus de natura aeris / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679