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Autore |
Shapin Steven |
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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 |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 1989, c1985 |
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ISBN |
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0-691-08393-2 |
0-691-02432-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st Princeton pbk. print. with corrections.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 440 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SchafferSimon <1955-> |
HobbesThomas <1588-1679.> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Air-pumps - History |
Physics - Experiments - History |
Science - England - History |
Air-pumps - History - England |
Science - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-426) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 1660's -- Natural philosophy and the restoration : interests in dispute -- The polity of science : conclusions -- Translation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus. |
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