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Record Nr.

UNISA996248121203316

Autore

Shapin Steven

Titolo

Leviathan and the air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Simon Schaffer / / Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 1989, c1985

ISBN

0-691-08393-2

0-691-02432-4

Edizione

[1st Princeton pbk. print. with corrections.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 440 p. ) : ill. ;

Altri autori (Persone)

SchafferSimon <1955->

HobbesThomas <1588-1679.>

Disciplina

533/.5

Soggetti

Air-pumps - History

Physics - Experiments - History

Science - England - History

Air-pumps - History - England

Science - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-426) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 1660's -- Natural philosophy and the restoration : interests in dispute -- The polity of science : conclusions -- Translation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus.