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

• Autore: Shapin Steven
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 1989, c1985
• Edizione: 1st Princeton pbk. print. with corrections.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 440 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 533/.5
• Soggetto topico: Air-pumps - History; Physics - Experiments - History; Science - England - History; Air-pumps - History - England; Science - History
• Altri autori: SchafferSimon <1955-> HobbesThomas <1588-1679.>
• 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.
• Titolo abbreviato (Periodici): Leviathan and the Air-Pump
• Altri titoli varianti: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life
• Titolo autorizzato: Leviathan and the air-pump
• ISBN: 0-691-08393-2; 0-691-02432-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248121203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.